Re: Status of mysql_db_query()

At 17:25 24/08/2002, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:

At 15:42 24-8-2002, Zeev Suraski wrote:

Can anybody explain the reasoning for deprecating it? Other than breaking tons of sites, I don't see any advantage to it. Even for efficiency junkies, mysql_db_query() is significantly more efficient than the mysql_select_db() and mysql_query() combo, if you only make a single query on a page (which accounts for a great deal of the pages in my experience).

And what about mysql() - same deprecation.

No, mysql() is bad because the name doesn't give you the faintest clue about what it does... That's why mysql_db_query() was introduced to begin with, and that is why mysql() was documented as 'deprecated' from the very beginning of PHP 3...

FWIW - I've already moved all the mysql_db_query stuff outof our sites and the main advantage being debugability: <?php ... mysql_db_query("other_db","query",$conn); //various includes later mysql_query($sql, $conn); ?> error: no such table Whether that's reason for deprecation, is questionable.

I don't think it is. Replace mysql_db_query() with mysql_select_db() and you're left off with the same issue... Zeev