Answers.Body: <p>In my case it did not break CiviCRM (4.6.9 at the time). In fact, CiviCRM recently made a blog post suggesting the same upgrade in preparation for future versions.</p>
  
  <p>Edit: a link to said blog post: <a href="https://civicrm.org/blog/totten/psa-please-verify-php-extension-mysqli" rel="nofollow">https://civicrm.org/blog/totten/psa-please-verify-php-extension-mysqli</a></p>
  
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Body: <p>We have a 4.1 installation with PHP 5.3. The current PHP install uses MySQL, not MySQLi. I need to enable MySQLi to support a new application. Our hosting company says this will entail recompiling PHP and Apache to enable this. </p>
  
  <p>Will this completely break our CiviCRM install?</p>
  
Tags: <mysql>
Title: MySQL to MySQLi
ThreadText: # MySQL to MySQLi
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-08-25)
  
  We have a 4.1 installation with PHP 5.3. The current PHP install uses MySQL, not MySQLi. I need to enable MySQLi to support a new application. Our hosting company says this will entail recompiling PHP and Apache to enable this.
  
  Will this completely break our CiviCRM install?
  
  **Tags:** mysql
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-08-25. Score: 1
  
  In my case it did not break CiviCRM (4.6.9 at the time). In fact, CiviCRM recently made a blog post suggesting the same upgrade in preparation for future versions.
  
  Edit: a link to said blog post: <https://civicrm.org/blog/totten/psa-please-verify-php-extension-mysqli>
  
  
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