php 7.2 and Contao 3.5.35

[justs]

Hi,

My provider urges me to update the PHP version from 5.6 to 7.2. My installation of Contao 3.5.35 obviously can't cope with that, because I get a fatal error:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception Error with message Call to undefined function Contao\Database\mysql_connect() thrown in system/modules/core/library/Contao/Database/Mysql.php on line 47
#0 system/modules/core/library/Contao/Database.php(81): Contao\Database\Mysql->connect()
#1 system/modules/core/library/Contao/Database.php(165): Contao\Database->__construct(Array)
#2 [internal function]: Contao\Database::getInstance()
#3 system/modules/core/library/Contao/System.php(140): call_user_func(Array)
#4 system/modules/core/library/Contao/User.php(158): Contao\System->import('Database')
#5 system/modules/core/classes/FrontendUser.php(62): Contao\User->__construct()
#6 system/modules/core/library/Contao/User.php(220): Contao\FrontendUser->__construct()
#7 [internal function]: Contao\User::getInstance()
#8 system/modules/core/library/Contao/System.php(140): call_user_func(Array)
#9 system/modules/core/controllers/FrontendIndex.php(31): Contao\System->import('FrontendUser', 'User')
#10 index.php(19): Contao\FrontendIndex->__construct()
#11 {main}

Is there something I can do?

Thanks in advance!

[Spooky]

Yes, change

$GLOBALS['TL_CONFIG']['dbDriver'] = 'MySQL'; 

to

$GLOBALS['TL_CONFIG']['dbDriver'] = 'MySQLi'; 

in your system/config/localconfig.php.

[justs]

Thank you, this saved my day!