PDOException on Windows Server
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I'm fairly new to MySQL and PHP, so bear with me. After some research, I found out...much to my distress...that apparently my site is hosted on a Windows server (by default) on GoDaddy which doesn't support PDO.

I just recently switched all database calls to use prepared statements through recommendation from another question I posted. I now find out that these aren't running and I'm getting a nasty error:

    Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'could not find driver' in D:\Hosting\8446415\html\ROOTFOLDER\php\Connect.php:8
    
    Stack trace: #0 D:\Hosting\8446415\html\ROOTFOLDER\php\Connect.php(8): PDO->__construct('mysql:host=HOSTNAME', 'DBNAME', 'PASSWORD') 
    
    #1 D:\Hosting\8446415\html\ROOTFOLDER\admin.php(67): Connect->connect()
    #2 {main} thrown in D:\Hosting\8446415\html\ROOTFOLDER\php\Connect.php on line 8

Here is Connect.php:

    <?php
    	class Connect {
    		const expAddress = "HOSTNAME";
    		const expUser = "USERNAME";
    		const expPwd = "PASSWORD";
    	
    		function connect() {
    			$db = new PDO('mysql:host='.self::expAddress.';dbname='.self::expUser.';charset=UTF-8', self::expUser, self::expPwd);
    						
    			if(!$db) {
    				die("<p>Could not establish a connection to the database.</p>");
    				include('footer.php');	
    			}
    			else {
    				return $db; 
    			}
    		}
    	}
    ?>

So what is the fix here? I don't know what is supported, and I was told to shy away from all mysql_* statements.

**I cannot upgrade my hosting account to Linux, even though that would be easiest.** Do I need to use mysqli_* statements? How would this particular call change so that the input is safe from injection?

    $stmt = $db->prepare("SELECT * FROM logins WHERE username=? AND password=?");
    $stmt->execute(array($user, $pass));
    $rows = $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);