diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e0ac4f1bb..20b56ca6e 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog
 $Id$
 $Source$
 
+2004-09-28 Alexander M. Turek  <me@derrabus.de>
+    * libraries/dbi/mysql.dbi.php: Compatibility fix for php < 4.3
+      (bug #1033360), thanks to Claude Theroux.
+
 2004-09-27 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
     ### 2.6.0 released
 
diff --git a/libraries/dbi/mysql.dbi.lib.php b/libraries/dbi/mysql.dbi.lib.php
index ec06fea1a..6bffb7fac 100644
--- a/libraries/dbi/mysql.dbi.lib.php
+++ b/libraries/dbi/mysql.dbi.lib.php
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ function PMA_DBI_connect($user, $password) {
                    ? ''
                    : ':' . $cfg['Server']['socket'];
 
-    if (PMA_MYSQL_CLIENT_API >= 32349) {
+    if (PMA_PHP_INT_VERSION >= 40300 && PMA_MYSQL_CLIENT_API >= 32349) {
         $client_flags = $cfg['Server']['compress'] && defined('MYSQL_CLIENT_COMPRESS') ? MYSQL_CLIENT_COMPRESS : 0;
         // always use CLIENT_LOCAL_FILES as defined in mysql_com.h
         // for the case where the client library was not compiled