lib/mysql.php Line 35 braces no longer supportet PHP 8.1

[TomTheRock]

Error Line:
if ($hostname{1} != ':' && isset(\Dshafik\MySQL::$connections[$hash])) {

Fix:
if ($hostname[1] != ':' && isset(\Dshafik\MySQL::$connections[$hash])) {

[lastorset]

This is a duplicate of #47, which was fixed six years ago. Perhaps @TomTheRock is getting an old version from Composer, like I am. I seem to have 0.2.0, which is 615fb0f (from 2016). I don't understand Composer well enough to say why this happens, or what the latest version number is.

[lastorset]

Okay, I've read up a bit and found that Packagist has some later versions, but they are marked as beta, which may be why Composer isn't showing them by default. There is also the dev-master version, which is up-to-date.

For @TomTheRock and others seeing this issue, you can consider using "dev-master" as your version specifier:

        "dshafik/php7-mysql-shim": "dev-master"

Should be fine, since this is a stop-gap solution 😉 and is unlikely to break backwards-compatibility, since maintaining that is its only purpose.

For @dshafik, you could consider unmarking as beta so people by default get something that works on PHP 8.

And thanks for continuing to maintain this for those of us stuck with legacy code! 🙏