PDO vs mysqli
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/pdo-vs-mysqli-which-should-you-use/
Onno Marsman February 29, 2012 at 4:11 am The reason PDO is not an option for me is that there is no working num_rows function. SELECT FOUND_ROWS() is no real alternative because it should return something different than num_rows when using CALC_FOUND_ROWS for efficient paging. So it’s mysqli for me.
Piry March 24, 2012 at 4:49 pm [write your own wrapper]]
Enrique February 21, 2012 at 7:06 pm ... MySQLi supports multiple queries ... http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.multi-query.php ...