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Architecture

The mysqlnd connection multiplexing plugin is implemented as a PHP extension.

It is written in C and operates under the hood of PHP. During the

startup of the PHP interpreter, in the module initialization phase of the

PHP engine, it gets registered as a

mysqlnd plugin to replace specific

mysqlnd C methods.

The mysqlnd library uses PHP streams to communicate with the MySQL

server. PHP streams are accessed by the mysqlnd library through its net module.

The mysqlnd connection multiplexing plugin proxies methods of the mysqlnd

library net module to control opening and closing of network streams.

Upon opening a user connection to MySQL using the appropriate connection

functions of either mysqli,

PDO_MYSQL or

ext/mysql, the plugin will search its

connection pool for an open network connection. If the pool

contains a network connection to the host specified by the connect function

using the transport method requested (TCP/IP, Unix domain socket, Windows named pipe),

the pooled connection is linked to the user handle. Otherwise, a new

network connection is opened, put into the poolm and associated with the

user connection handle. This way, multiple user handles can be linked

to the same network connection.