I have installed MySQL community server 5.6.17 (latest GA version) and php 5.4.26. I am having an issue with installing php-mysql; the MySQL compatibility libraries are installed. Searches on the internet shows that I am not the only one with the exact same issues but no answers were found. I ran into this problem before and there is this long post by me on it. I thought I could use the php-mysqlnd with the native driver but I could not run Dolphin and ended up wiping that server and going with an older version of php.
I found this on the remi blog about php-mysqlnd:
The use of this new driver is transparent for PHP applications. Some report better performances (notably for memory). Furthermore, this remove dependency on mysql-libs.
And on Giri Mandalika's Repository, a blog at blogs.oracle.com:
The MySQL native driver for PHP (will simply be referred as mysqlnd from this point), is an additional, alternative way to connect from PHP 5 and PHP 6 to the MySQL Server 4.1 or later versions. mysqlnd is a replacement for the MySQL client library, libmysql; and it is tightly integrated into PHP starting with the release of PHP 5.3. That is, from PHP 5.3 onwards the developers can choose between libmysql and mysqlnd when using mysql, mysqli or PDO_MySQL extensions to connect to the MySQL server 4.1 or newer.
I am setting up a new server, CentOS 6.5, php 5.4.26, and MySQL community server 5.6.17, Nginx 1.5.12 mainline; nginx will be compiled from source.
So if I can get some convo on php-mysqlnd it would be appreciated.
footnote: mysql is already deprecated by PHP developers and eventually Dolphin will need to be recoded to use mysqli.
