title: MySQLi with PHP 8.0.6: Unsupported anymore
body: <p>i was updating my production server with php 8 and i discovered an error &quot;Fatal Error: Class mysqli not found&quot;. So i asked to the support and they told me that &quot;according to php official manual, mysqli is not supported anymore in php 8&quot;.</p>
  <p>I tried to find any news on the internet about this, but i can't find anything.</p>
  <p>Looking at the php changelog, they talk about bugfixes for mysqli library until PHP 8.0.2, then nothing.
  Looking at the MySQLi official page on the php manual, there is only &quot;PHP5, PHP7&quot; as supported (while there is PHP 8 on PDO instead).</p>
  <p>So, has somebody any news about this? What happened?</p>
  <p>I got the same problem installing Wamp Server on a local machine with PHP 8.0.6, so i think they really removed MySQLi from the library, but in both local and production doing a phpinfo() i can clearly see &quot;mysqli&quot; extension installed.</p>
  <p>Thank you in advance.</p>
  <p>EDIT:
  About the production server, basically, provider told me &quot;use sp-php instead of php&quot;, and now mysqli works.
  About the PHP.net, i think they forgot to add the support.</p>