Re: Re: [VOTE] Remove deprecated functionality in PHP 7

Pierre Joye in php.internals (Thu, 5 Mar 2015 12:36:32 -0800): >On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote: >> I'm on the fence about making a release for ereg and mysql: it would >> help in terms of code availability, but at the same time I feel like >> it undermines our message of "no, really, don't use these at all in >> PHP 7", even though they'd be marked as unmaintained and deprecated. >> >> I guess I'm open to persuasion either way here. > >Same here. First time we moved ext to pecl I was saying that we should >not provide any release and not even use pecl for that. We disagreed, >so I think we should be consistent here and move on. While I do think >that a lot of bad things may happen with people starting to install >ext/mysql from pecl =) On the other hand: there is a chance they might switch to PHP7 earlier. I have got some really old legacy code (dating back to 2005), which is safely guarded against SQL injection and the like. I did a quick test and only a few changes were needed to let it run on PHP7. This involved changes like $$hash into ${$hash}. BTW: Piwik heavily uses $$ even in the latest releases, so it is not as old-style-coding as you might think. We are gradually moving our legacy sites to Drupal 7/8, so we will not spend time on moving the old code from MySQL to MySQLi. But PHP7 has a lot of benefits as well. Be sure I will be installing MySQL as shared extension for PHP7. Jan