[RFC] Support for MariaDB

[juzars]

MariaDB WILL replace MySQL in future.
MySQL will be less and less free, thanks to oracle...

[brunoais]

How can you be sure of that?

[juzars]

How can you be sure of that?

I'm not sure, I hope that
Read this: http://www.computerworld.com.au/article ... s_mariadb/

[keith10456]

Google is already making the switch to MariaDB. Check out this article, "Google Waves Goodbye To MySQL In Favor Of MariaDB" (published September 14, 2013).

http://readwrite.com/2013/09/14/google- ... sRF5JmzuYu

[MichaelC]

This is going off-topic (The topic being MariaDB support for phpBB). Essentially, phpBB does already support MariaDB so the only thing we could do is add it to a list of supported database systems unless anyone can point out a way that we can do something to improve MariaDB Support?

[Danielx64]

Is it worth adding this for 3.0.x as well? I'm intending on testing it out and seeing it it will work at all.

[MichaelC]

Is it worth adding this for 3.0.x as well? I'm intending on testing it out and seeing it it will work at all.

phpBB does already support MariaDB so the only thing we could do is add it to a list of supported database systems unless anyone can point out a way that we can do something to improve MariaDB Support?

There is nothing to add, and we couldn't change anything, even if we wanted to as php just has a mysqli driver which works fine for MariaDB.

[Danielx64]

Good catch I suppose we could at lease make a note in the installer and documentation about it.

[bantu]

It would be nice to run tests using our MySQL driver on a MariaDB database. For Travis-CI see https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/1081

Considering that this Travis-CI ticket has not been implemented within the last 6 months, I have gone ahead and implemented MariaDB support for Travis-CI in our repository. See https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb3/pull/1780/files

Good catch I suppose we could at lease make a note in the installer and documentation about it.

We will add MariaDB to the documentation files of 3.0.13. See http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-11920

[keith10456]

Glad to hear it