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Re:PHP to deprecate MySQL extension by wvenable on Friday July 15, 2011 @11:19AM (#2767676)
It's being deprecated; so it's not a hard stop. It says so right in the message: "Don't panic! This is not a proposal to add errors or remove this popular extension. Not yet anyway, because it's too popular to do that now"

The mysqli extension has been out for 5 years already, if you've got 300 sites that need to be recoded you might want to get on that. It's not difficult to switch from mysql to mysqli -- the API is very similar. But you have a long time; PHP 5.4 won't even deprecate it and it's not even released yet!

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Re:PHP to deprecate MySQL extension by masklinn on Friday July 15, 2011 @11:42AM (#2767786)
> The mysqli extension has been out for 5 years already

I believe mysqli and PDO were released with PHP 5.0. That's July 2004.

That's 7 years ago.

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