Difference between mysql & mysqli [duplicate]
问题 This question already has answers here : Closed 6 years ago . Possible Duplicate: mysql vs mysqli in php What is the difference between mysql_* functions and mysqli_* functions ? Is there any technical reasons behind we shouldn't use mysql_* functions ? 回答1: The "i" stands for "improved". The list of improvements can be found in here. MySQLi is the OOP version of MySQL extension. In the end, MySQLi and MySQL accomplish the same thing: they are extension for interacting with MySQL from PHP. A