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Hi,

I'm getting the following error message at the top of the page while using localhost.

"Deprecated: mysql_connect(): The mysql extension is deprecated and will be removed in the future: use mysqli or PDO instead"

I'm using XAMPP 3.2.1 is this something I need to turn off within Xampp?
Q2A version: 1.6.2

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You are usino PHP 5.5, that has introduced this deprecation :

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-connect.php

Since PHP 5.5 is relatively "new" (June 2013) and most sw products have not been tested on it, I would downgrade to PHP 5.4.x.

If you do not want to downgrade you could suppress the deprecation errors by setting error_reporting in php.ini to exclude E_DEPRECATED.

But personally I don't like this solution (you could have other issues)
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thanks, I edited the php.ini to display_errors=off
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Thank you max
asked Nov 15, 2014 in Q2A Core by anonymous what can i change in php.ini file
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