Re: RFC: ext/mysql deprecation

On 13 November 2012 23:49, Johannes Schlüter <johannes@schlueters.de> wrote: > > > Reinis Rozitis <r@roze.lv> wrote: > >>> Rewriting perfectly functional mysql code to use mysqli is not a >>trivial >>> move, just as are the problems of re-writing PHP5.2 code to work >>cleanly >>> on 5.4. ISP's are stuck between keeping customers - who are most >>likely >>> not even very computer literate - working while fighting the problems >>that >>> changes such as removing mysql will cause them. >> >> >>I wonder if there have been any plans or suggestions (while dropping >>the >>old ext/mysql code) to provide some sort of seamless >>migration/alternatives >>(similar way it has been done in case of libmysql and mysqlnd)? >>In short - just aliasing the old mysql_* to mysqli_* functions (as most >>used >>like _query, _fetch_row/assoc have just mixed variable order)? >> > > Reimplementing ext/mysql inside PHP makes no sense. The result of this would be (almost) the > exact same code as we have. (ext/mysql is a exremely small wrapper over libmysql/mysqlnd only > special thngs are pconnect, auto connect and reusage of default connection) What one might try to do > is changing ext/mysql to not use a resource but an mysqli object, then users might swich module by > module, instead of breaking the application completely. But I fear we will introduce many bugs that > way as this is a quite huge patch. An alternative approach might be to reimplement mysql_* > functions using PHP userland code based on mysqli. Then users can load that lib (php.ini > autoprepend_file) for compatibility and bugs can be fixed relatively simple (no C needed, no PHP > release needed, ...) but again: writing such a lib is a relatively huge project. > > In my opinion we tell users as good as we can that ext/mysql is deprecated for some time, if we > really want to get rid of it, we have to add E_DEPRECATED and then remove it.Waiting a year more > won't change much, there will always people who hit it. +1 on all of that. I was trying to crystallise my thoughts on the way home, and you've done it for me. Thanks, Johannes. :) Adam