Re: PHP version confusion

Correct, PHP 7 is in beta, to be stabilized around Nov 2015. https://wiki.php.net/todo/php70#timetable On Sep 9, 2015 6:52 PM, "Alice Grimm" <stagedwebs@gmail.com> wrote: > So PHP version 7 does exist it just isn't a stable version, yet. > > Thanks for your time, > > Elaine > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Bishop Bettini <bishop@php.net> wrote: > >> Version 5.6 contains a super-set of features in version 5.5. Thus, >> version 5.6.13 will issue a deprecation warning when using >> mysql_real_escape_string(). >> >> You can download version 7 by following the instructions on the Development >> sources (git) link <http://php.net/git.php>. Were >> you to download PHP 7 >> source, and run your code with PHP 7, then you would get a Fatal error when >> running mysql_real_escape_string. >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Alice Grimm <stagedwebs@gmail.com> 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! >>> >>> Thanks for your time, >>> >>> Elaine >>> >> >> >