So for a good 24 months the site was working great. And using ARI Data Tables perfectly.

My site is a Joomla site. I have some custom PHP code within Joomla articles, and other custom PHP code executed as a stand-alone script as well.

Some time recently, they upgraded to PHP 5.5.35. From what I can tell from online docs, this version deprecated mysql_ functions. Some db code I had didn't work anymore. I added some statements in the php.ini file to "enable" PDO functionality, re-wrote the code to use PDO, and presto, that custom PHP code works now.

(However, the entire Joomla site works still, and from what I know, uses mysql_ functions to access the db.)

But....... the only parts of the site that still don't work are the ARI Data Tables pages. There are 3 of them. Looking at a module in the Joomla back end, it says that ARI is using mysqli_ functions. PHP statements extension_loaded("mysqli") and class_exists("mysqli") both report NO, even if I added mysqli.so to the php.ini file.


Does anyone have any thoughts to get the 3 ARI Data Tables pages working?

Solved it myself. lol


Changed db type from mysqli to mysql.