I need to make Zen Photo work with MySQLi for a migration to PHP 7.
During setup (Whether using PHP 5 or 7), Zen Photo fails during setup with the error
"MySQLi reported: Unknown MySQL server host [myHostHere]"
Setup runs perfectly fine if I leave everything identical except for selecting MySQL in the dropdown menu. Also, that same set of credentials works with phpMyAdmin no matter which version of PHP I run, which says it is using MySQLi.
*The error occurs no matter what version of PHP I use.
*Zen Photo installs and works normally if I use MySQL (and not MySQLi) under PHP 5.x (MySQL without 'i' isn't supported in PHP 7)
Is there some special way to set this up?