diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 370689e64..c8a509a88 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ $Source$
 2004-02-29 Alexander M. Turek  <howcanisleepwithyourvoiceinmyhead@derrabus.de>
     * tbl_select.php: Fixed bug #887505 (PMA does not add MySQL charsets to
       WHERE clauses).
+    * libraries/dbi/mysql.dbi.lib.php: Yet another ungly fix concerning the
+      missing mysql_get_client_info() function.
 
 2004-02-27 Michal Cihar  <imback@cihar.com>
     * config.inc.php, libraries/config_import.lib.php,
diff --git a/libraries/dbi/mysql.dbi.lib.php b/libraries/dbi/mysql.dbi.lib.php
index c58624ba2..3511e03ae 100644
--- a/libraries/dbi/mysql.dbi.lib.php
+++ b/libraries/dbi/mysql.dbi.lib.php
@@ -23,9 +23,13 @@ if (!@function_exists('mysql_connect')) {
 
 // MySQL client API
 if (!defined('PMA_MYSQL_CLIENT_API')) {
-    $client_api = explode('.', mysql_get_client_info());
-    define('PMA_MYSQL_CLIENT_API', (int)sprintf('%d%02d%02d', $client_api[0], $client_api[1], intval($client_api[2])));
-    unset($client_api);
+    if (function_exists('mysql_get_client_info')) {
+        $client_api = explode('.', mysql_get_client_info());
+        define('PMA_MYSQL_CLIENT_API', (int)sprintf('%d%02d%02d', $client_api[0], $client_api[1], intval($client_api[2])));
+        unset($client_api);
+    } else {
+        define('PMA_MYSQL_CLIENT_API', 32332); // always expect the worst...
+    }
 }
 
 function PMA_DBI_connect($user, $password) {