MySQL PHP incompatibility

Question

I\'m running WAMP locally, but connecting to a remote MySQL database. The local version of PHP is the latest 5.3.0.

One of the remote databases, being version 5.0.45

Answer 1

After lots of search and tries I found a way without needage to any downgrade/upgrade of MySQL and any affect on other users of running instance of MySQL.

The solution is to resetting password by:

for MySQL versions newer than 5.7.5 ( > 5.7.5):

ALTER USER 'mysqlUsername'@'hostname' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'mysqlUsernamePassword';

for older versions of MySQL: ( <= 5.7.5)

SET PASSWORD FOR 'mysqlUsername'@'hostname' = PASSWORD('mysqlUsernamePassword');

I found the point here!

It made mine working well!