mysqli_ping() is deprecated #14
Description
The Mysqli driver uses mysql_ping() to check if the connection is still alive and reconnects if necessary.
This function is deprecated in PHP 8.4 (https://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.ping.php).
There doesn't seem to be an easy replacement and the best option is probably catching connection errors after executing queries and then reconnecting + retrying the query. The amount of retries between each successful connection should be limited.