Re: RFC: ext/mysql deprecation

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Adam Harvey wrote: > I've written an RFC to cover deprecating ext/mysql in PHP 5.5: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mysql_deprecation. While we handled > the soft > deprecation in the documentation purely via a straw poll on Internals, > I presume this will end up needing to go to a vote, hence the RFC. > > I won't rehash the background overly (there's some more detail in the > RFC), other than to note that we've now had deprecation notices on all > mysql_* functions in the manual for about six months and that the > logical next step is to start generating E_DEPRECATED notices when > users connect via mysql_connect(), mysql_pconnect() or the implicit > ext/mysql connection routines. It's my belief that doing so will > hasten the move of users to the more modern (and supported) APIs > available: mysqli and PDO, and that this process will also likely > encourage some users to switch to safer patterns such as prepared > queries at the same time. > IMO, there doesn't need to be a discussion on *how* to deprecate ext/mysql. We have E_DEPRECATED for that, just like you write in your RFC. The only question is "do we want to deprecate it?". On that one: +1 cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug Posted with an email client that doesn't mangle email: alpine