Receiving errors when trying to use mysqli extension

Last updated January 30, 2008. Created by boydjd on January 30, 2008.
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PHP 5.0.5 does not support the mysqli extension, which is the default extension used by Drupal for mysql database access. A work-around for this issue is to modify $db_url in settings.php and specify mysql:// rather than mysqli://.

You are a victim of this bug if you see the following types of errors: