a question to the developers

[isuru]

is anyone allowed to use the db_mysql.php file that comes in the vBulletin Lite Package for their own personal projects?

I've seen this mentioned in a few threads and the answer seemed to be that it was ok but I want to make sure.

[isuru]

well no ones said I cant so i gues I can use it then

[JohnM]

Mike sullivan used it in his mArticle thing but that might be only for him because he's a moderator... I'd e-mail john/james and ask them...

[Mike Sullivan]

I asked John to personally use it. You might want to ask John to confirm that you can use it.

And that "no one said no, so it's yes" attitude won't get you anywhere.

[Freddie Bingham]

If you compare what code is in db_mysql vs. what you can download from somewhere like phpbuilder.com or hotscripts.com you will find that there isn't a lot of difference.

[Mike Sullivan]

Hmm.. freddie got me thinking, so I scoured my ICQ logs and found this from John:
It was taken from somewhere when I started writing PHP. Since then it has been seriously hacked into the form that you see today, and I think that most of it has been written by me. Do go ahead and use it though

Anyway, I thought I remembered seeing a db_mysql mentioned in something I downloaded, so I looked through a bunch of the php related things and found that John's appears to be originally sourced off of PHPLib's db_mysql.inc, but it is now significantly different. Their's is a little more extensive, but John's is more too the point. I like his query_first function though :)