MySQL Native Driver

    Introduction

    MySQL Native Driver is a replacement for the MySQL Client Library (libmysqlclient). MySQL Native Driver is part of the official PHP sources as of PHP 5.3.0.

    The MySQL database extensions MySQL extension, mysqli and PDO MYSQL all communicate with the MySQL server. In the past, this was done by the extension using the services provided by the MySQL Client Library. The extensions were compiled against the MySQL Client Library in order to use its client-server protocol.

    With MySQL Native Driver there is now an alternative, as the MySQL database extensions can be compiled to use MySQL Native Driver instead of the MySQL Client Library.

    MySQL Native Driver is written in C as a PHP extension.

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    koalay at gmail dot com
    16 years ago
    For those who manually compiled MySQL, the default
 mysqlnd settings may results in error.
Your mysql_error() function may give you this message: 

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No such file or directory (trying to connect via unix:///tmp/mysql.sock)
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This is because your manually compiled MySQL has its own place for socket.
You need to provide PHP a reference for an appropriate mysql socket.
That means you need to edit php.ini and add a section like this:

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[mysql]
mysql.default_socket="/your/path/to/mysql.sock"
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