Re: PHP version confusion

Alice Grimm wrote: > http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-real-escape-string.php > states: > "This extension was deprecated in PHP 5.5.0, and it was removed in PHP > 7.0.0." > > But http://php.net/downloads.php show the current stable > version is 5.6.13! > > How can something be depreciated and removed by a version that apparently > doesn't exist! While PHP 7.0.0 has not yet reached GA status, PHP 7.0.0RC2 has already been released[1]. As it is very likely that there won't be many differences between the RCs and the GA version, the documentation has already been prepared for PHP 7.0.0. [1] <http://www.php.net/archive/2015.php#id2015-09-04-1> -- Christoph M. Becker