From 2a657fd987839148015eca5ea8b76df2d1f1ecf2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Hardy <adrian@diginuity.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 10:46:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Support transactions in PHP 5.4 by making sure begin()
 delegates to query('BEGIN') if begin_transaction() is not available.

---
 src/Docnet/DB.php | 16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Docnet/DB.php b/src/Docnet/DB.php
index 40c1aef..ebd51e9 100644
--- a/src/Docnet/DB.php
+++ b/src/Docnet/DB.php
@@ -62,16 +62,26 @@ public function __construct($str_host, $str_user, $str_pass, $str_db = NULL, $in
      *
      * @returns \Docnet\Db
      * @throws \Exception if mysqli::begin_transaction() returned false
+     * @since 19/May/14 support for PHP 5.4 using query('BEGIN')
      */
     public function begin()
     {
         if ($this->bol_in_transaction) {
             return $this;
         }
-        if (!$this->obj_db->begin_transaction()) {
-            throw new \Exception("Failed to start a transaction");
+        
+        if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.5.0') >= 0) {
+            $bol_success = $this->obj_db->begin_transaction();
+        } else {
+            $bol_success = $this->obj_db->query('BEGIN');
         }
-        $this->bol_in_transaction = true;
+        
+        if ($bol_success) {
+            $this->bol_in_transaction = true;            
+        } else {
+            throw new \Exception("Failed to start a transaction");
+        }            
+        
         return $this;
     }
 

From 8f05d9171478eef2b631e209257f616589fb1ace Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Hardy <adrian@diginuity.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 16:45:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Used the PHP_VERSION_ID constant to comapre, instead of
 version_compare()

---
 src/Docnet/DB.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/Docnet/DB.php b/src/Docnet/DB.php
index ebd51e9..ae85c1f 100644
--- a/src/Docnet/DB.php
+++ b/src/Docnet/DB.php
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ public function begin()
             return $this;
         }
         
-        if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.5.0') >= 0) {
+        if (PHP_VERSION_ID >= 50500) {
             $bol_success = $this->obj_db->begin_transaction();
         } else {
             $bol_success = $this->obj_db->query('BEGIN');