From ec8200d0eb7ee2fc5d198eb9685d800f9a4bb7a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Anderson <davea@ssl.berkeley.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:02:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Web: in PHP < 5.3.0, mysqli doesn't support persistent
 connections

---
 html/inc/db_conn.inc | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/html/inc/db_conn.inc b/html/inc/db_conn.inc
index a3a035cb78..7f32489e99 100644
--- a/html/inc/db_conn.inc
+++ b/html/inc/db_conn.inc
@@ -35,7 +35,11 @@ class DbConn {
 
     function init_conn($user, $passwd, $host, $name) {
         if (MYSQLI) {
-            $this->db_conn = new mysqli("p:".$host, $user, $passwd);
+            if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.3.0') < 0) {
+                $this->db_conn = new mysqli($host, $user, $passwd);
+            } else {
+                $this->db_conn = new mysqli("p:".$host, $user, $passwd);
+            }
         } else {
             $this->db_conn = mysql_pconnect($host, $user, $passwd);
         }