NYCPHP Meetup

[David Krings]

On 2/24/2014 10:41 PM, justin wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:34 PM, David Krings <ramons at gmx.net
> <mailto:ramons at gmx.net>> wrote:
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>     Regular MySQL depricated? Can anyone elaborate on this? Is that to be
>     understood as that the drivers for MySQL in PHP will go away eventually?
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> The "regular" MySQL library has been deprecated, meaning all of the functions
> that start with mysql_*
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Thanks for the pointers. After some top level cursory reading the new means 
seem to do the same, just with a more complicated syntax (bleah!). This might 
be not the right place to ask, but why depricate the MySQL library? I could 
understand if MySQL usage was close to zero, but it remains a popular RDBMS.

Just wondering, because my son asked me how to make a web form that connects 
to a database and I rather not teach him stuff that is about to be obsolete.

David