Be advised that PHP >= 7 isn't supported yet.
I had to downgrade PHP back to 5.6.
PHP 5.3.6
or newer.
Some advanced functionality requires PHP 5.4.0
or newer.
The mysqlnd_ms
replication and load balancing
plugin supports all PHP applications and all available PHP MySQL extensions
(mysqli,
mysql,
PDO_MYSQL).
The PHP MySQL extension must be configured to use
mysqlnd in order to be able
to use the mysqlnd_ms
plugin for
mysqlnd.
Be advised that PHP >= 7 isn't supported yet.
I had to downgrade PHP back to 5.6.
There is now a PHP 7.* port of this extension with new cool functionalities, You can find it here https://github.com/sergiotabanelli/mysqlnd_ms