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Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: With MySQL 4.1.N and the new password thing, sorted?Yeah okay. There is PHP 4 and PHP 5 on the server.
I suppose my point is I think the only issue is the password thing, simply if the password would get through the rest would be okay as others have reported. So it’s a shame that WP hasn’t got the mysqli functionality yet, or PEAR support which would give it that. (I think lates PEAR :DB uses these extensions).
I understand what you mean about the compilation.
I think my point was that with WP using the mysql functions – there’s no way to make it work even with the right library compiled in because it uses the older functions.
Anyway, it’s all irrelevant now because I dumped that hosting account 🙂
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: fatal error when browsing by categoryfair play 🙂 I stuck full error message in and it wasn’t there first result so I posted. Should’ve looked harder.
Apologies.
Many thanks also.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: With MySQL 4.1.N and the new password thing, sorted?RustIndy: I’m sorry, maybe I wasn’t clear. By “mysql library” I mean the set of mysql functions in PHP which WP does use. See here:
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.phpBut PHP also has the “mysqli” “library” (extension, set of functions, whatever you want to call it.) See here
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysqli.php
These allow access new functionality in MySQL 4.1 and above (and as with this case, the new password hashing mechanism).
PHP also has the PEAR::DB layer which any client program can use which will use the appropriate underlying set of PHP functions, or any given C extension to PHP which may allow access to databases PHP doesn’t natively support.
By “mysql library” I didn’t mean the low level C library that PHP is compiled against. Sorry for the confusion.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: With MySQL 4.1.N and the new password thing, sorted?RustIndy: I’m sorry, maybe I wasn’t clear. By “mysql library” I mean the set of mysql functions in PHP which WP does use. See here:
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.phpBut PHP also has the “mysqli” “library” (extension, set of functions, whatever you want to call it.) See here
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysqli.php
These allow access new functionality in MySQL 4.1 and above (and as with this case, the new password hashing mechanism).
PHP also has the PEAR::DB layer which any client program can use which will use the appropriate underlying set of PHP functions, or any given C extension to PHP which may allow access to databases PHP doesn’t natively support.
By “mysql library” I didn’t mean the low level C library that PHP is compiled against. Sorry for the confusion.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: With MySQL 4.1.N and the new password thing, sorted?“box” – yes, as in just general name for computer server. Yes it’s remotely hosted.
I know it’s not a Word Press issue as such, but word press uses the ‘mysql’ library. There is a newer ‘mysqli’ library which will support the new password hashing mechanism, so any software that is capable of using that will be okay – so I’d imagine that something using the PEAR database abstraction layer would be okay.
I don’t know if Textpattern uses that – but on one of the posts I saw that a person experiencing the same problem had it solved by switching.
Thanks for the MySQL statement also. However, as I said in the post, I’ve tried updating the password with the OLD_PASSWORD() hashing mechanism and it doesn’t work because I don’t have priviledges to update the user like that. I don’t have root on the mysq server so I’m aware it can be fixed like this, but only for people who are running their own servers.