Comments - Moving from MySQL to MariaDB in Debian 9

mariadb with msql support ( mysqli )

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{
		$this->db_addr = $db_addr;
		$this->db_user = $db_user;
		$this->db_pass = $db_pass;
		
		$this->querycount = 0;
		
		if ( $use_pconnect )
		{
			$this->link = @mysqli_connect("p:".$db_addr, $db_user, $db_pass);
		}
		else
		{
			$this->link = @mysqli_connect($db_addr, $db_user, $db_pass);
		}
		
		if ( $this->link )
		{
			$q = @mysqli_query($this->link, "SET NAMES 'utf8'");
			@mysqli_free_result($q);
			if ( $db_name != '' )
			{
				$this->db_name = $db_name;
				if ( !@mysqli_select_db($this->link, $db_name) )
				{
					@mysqli_close($this->db_connect_id);
					$this->error("Could not select database '$db_name'. Check that the value of DB_NAME in config.php is set correctly.");
				}
			}
			return $this->link;
		}
		else
		{
			$this->error('Could not connect to database server. Check that the values of DB_ADDR, DB_USER and DB_PASS in config.php are set correctly.');
		}
	}