Any ideas on how to handle mysql connections?

I attempted (briefly) to get UbbT 7.5.8 running under PHP 5.6.3 and it kept throwing errors over a missing mysql_pconnect(), which I assumed was because it has been deprecated and (I assume at this point) removed. Supposedly, we are supposed to use pdo_mysql_ or mysqli_ going forward

I briefly considered hacking the database/SQL class to switch over to using msqli_ methods, but I didn't have time to follow through it all.



Should I have ran into those issues, or is it more likely that I missed something (even though I *swear* I had php.ini setup correctly).

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