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Re:Software in 2014 by xd on Thursday January 09, 2014 @07:04AM (#7029969)
Check the manual; magic_quotes, mysql_escape_string and mysql_real_escape_string have already been deprecated/removed.
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Re:Software in 2014 by grey-area on Thursday January 09, 2014 @07:29AM (#7030050)
I'm aware of that thanks, as noted in the last line:

Efforts are being made to clean it up, but for a language to ever end up in a place with that sort of library functions is a pretty big red flag.

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Re:Software in 2014 by xd on Thursday January 09, 2014 @08:10AM (#7030215)
"for a language to ever end up in a place with that sort of library functions is a pretty big red flag."

At the time it was reasonable .. but PHP evolved and learned lessons, it didn't just stop there as you seem to be saying.

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