PHP 7

I know this may not be the best place to ask this question and I may have been living under a rock for some time now, but I see the notice here of not updating the latest Dreamweaver and figure someone here has to have an answer.

I have upgraded to php7 on my server and my website stopped working. Also when I try to connect to the site using Dreamweaver I get a message stating that it "can't use the mysql_(p) connect functions" I started doing some Googling and I saw that these functions have been depreciated. What the heck does that mean? The function for databases altogether seem to have been taken out of Dreamweaver. Can someone please tell me what the heck is going on? How do we develop web sites now without these functions?

You should go back to a version of PHP before 7 for any existing sites. Hosting companies will continue to support earlier versions for the next decade or so, you just can't upgrade above PHP 6 for those sites.

You can use our MySQLi Server Behaviors for new sites using PHP 7. MySQL has been replaced by MySQLi (the "i" stands for improved). If you build sites with those they will continue to work for the foreseeable future on future versions of php.

So setting up a new connection will not simply fix it?

No, all of the code referencing the database would change as well, not just the connection.

Originally Said By: Ray Borduin

  You should go back to a version of PHP before 7 for any existing sites. Hosting companies will continue to support earlier versions for the next decade or so, you just can't upgrade above PHP 6 for those sites.

You can use our MySQLi Server Behaviors for new sites using PHP 7. MySQL has been replaced by MySQLi (the "i" stands for improved). If you build sites with those they will continue to work for the foreseeable future on future versions of php.  

Can you please clarify - What is the plan for sites built using dataassist? I plan to have my websites up and running long beyond the next decade. What are my options?

SQL statements won't change, but the surrounding code will. Any code that refers to the database will have to be updated. That includes connections, recordsets, loops, inserts, updates, and display code.

We will have upgrade options in the new version of databridge, so when you open an existing server behavior and switch from a mysql to a mysqli recordset the associated code will be updated. But it won't work for custom code and will have to be done for all server behaviors individually.