I have shared hosting account and my webhost does not provide mysqli is there anyway i can run mysqli based scripts?
Write a wrapper class / functions for the mysqli to mysql? best solution would be to rewrite to non mysqli (for the most part is is just removing the 'i' from it)
You could write a class that provides mysql functionality but reference it by calling the class mysqli. You would need to include on all of the appropriate pages, but if you can write the class, you wouldn't need to change the script.