Hmm, I've heard of React, but have not had a chance to look at it much or use it yet. Looks like it would be better than any of the other alternatives out there

Hmm, I've heard of React, but have not had a chance to look at it much or use it yet. Looks like it would be better than any of the other alternatives out there though for PHP with a similar feature set. Thanks for the recommendation. MySQLnd uses the same API as MySQLi, so the only differences are deciding which to use within php.ini file and ability to use the asynchronous methods in for the MySQLi API in PHP. When MySQLnd originally came out, there was no support for SSL connections with it, but that's been fixed since PHP 5.4 I believe. Won't be able to use PDO though if wanting to use the async stuff (unless they have added that). Could probably write a small adapter to wrap one or the other though. MySQLi API design is kind of quirky compared to PDO API, so I generally write a small helper class to make life easier for dealing with prepared statements and binding variables to them.