mysql - Why shouldn't I use mysql_* functions in PHP? -
what technical reasons why 1 shouldn't use mysql_*
functions? (e.g. mysql_query()
, mysql_connect()
or mysql_real_escape_string()
)?
why should use else if work on site?
if don't work on site, why errors like warning: mysql_connect(): no such file or directory?
the mysql extension:
- is not under active development
- is officially deprecated of php 5.5 (released june 2013).
- has been removed entirely of php 7.0 (released december 2015)
- this means of 31 dec 2018 not exist in supported version of php. gets security updates.
- lacks oo interface
- doesn't support:
- non-blocking, asynchronous queries
- prepared statements or parameterized queries
- stored procedures
- multiple statements
- transactions
- the "new" password authentication method (on default in mysql 5.6; required in 5.7)
- all of functionality in mysql 5.1
since deprecated, using makes code less future proof.
lack of support prepared statements particularly important provide clearer, less error prone method of escaping , quoting external data manually escaping separate function call.
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