How to enable mysqlnd for php?

Question

I have PHP installed and running (version: 5.3.17) and I want to switch to mysqlnd (in the phpinfo mysqlnd does not exist at all).

I read that in order to set it, yo

Answer 1

I may be late with this but it could be of help to others. As already said elsewhere in the forum, if a call to a function like get_result complains that it is undefined, then php-mysqlnd need to be installed (this question). I realized that doing yum install (centos) will automatically reports that it wants to remove php-mysql and phpmyadmin; do not accept this as your phpmyadmin may not work after. Instead, use yum shell which will take the commands at once and gracefully handle the change over; do these in command line:

# yum shell
> remove  php-mysql
> install php-mysqlnd
> run
> quit

Now you may have to restart both the mariadb (most likely) and the httpd services.