Custom configure parameters for yum install php

Question

I use yum as my package manager on CentOS, running as a testing web server. I want to re-configure PHP with --with-mysqli=mysqlnd, but do it through yum. Is this possible, and if so, how?

At the moment, mysqli is already installed, but uses the default libmysql.

Answer 1

CentOS has left out MySQLND of their build. You have to find some third party repository where php5-mysqlnd is compiled. For example Remis one