I am working with a old ~2013 Drupal site with a lot of custom php 5 code woth a bunch of extra mysql database tables. The mysql version is 5.5. I need to setup a new mysql server. I would like to use a hosted mysql V8 from Digital Ocean. Should this be backward compatible?
I have no experience with php and would not know what to look for with regard to compatibility.
- Drupal version 7.
- PHP 5.5
- Mysql 5.5