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Re:80% of the Web Powered by PHP (2017) by lugg on Friday March 22, 2019 @11:11AM (#19463280)
MySQL libraries are extensions.

The mysqli library was likely a full rewrite in another extension. Extensions, at least that kind, at that time, didn't use/have namespaces.

Keep in mind this is a legacy code base with a function called mysql_real_escape string, like if you're at that point you're so far past gone you've lost all hope.

Re:80% of the Web Powered by PHP (2017) by buboard on Friday March 22, 2019 @02:42PM (#19465598)
> like if you're at that point you're so far past gone you've lost all hope.

for a 25 year library, thats not at all too bad. And even PHP developers admit that the lib was "not broken"