Question

I’m not a php developer, just started learning and migrating my php web site to code igniter. Previously I tried to deploy code on my production web site (paid hosting), and a class with PDO reference didn’t work, so I backed out form that. My hosting company told me to change my plan to a more expensive plan. I don’t want to do that but still I want to use PDO based code;
(From my CPanel I can see “PHP Version 5.2.17”, however PDO doesn’t work… I thought PDO was bundled with PHP 5…)

anyway
– Is this something that can be added to code igniter even if environment doesn’t provide? as a library..etc?
– Or is it commonly available/provided if I change my hosting company to a free hosting company?

Thanks for your advises.

Answer 1

PDO is built into CodeIgniter(system/database/drivers/pdo/); however, if your host does not support it, then it cannot be used.

As for free hosting that provides, PDO, you’ll have to do your research on that one.