Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 01/06/08 04:18

Jonas Werres wrote:
>
>> YMMV. I've found in many real-life instances they are faster -
>> because you don't have the overhead of creating the objects.
> It's only importent what the developers think.
>

Wrong. Real life is important.

>> No, they can't do anything mysqli can't. But so what? That's no
>> argument. It's just a different way of doing things.
> It is, when have to think about paying someone to do the development.
>

Yep. They need to pay someone to get the job done in the most
cost-effective way possible. Sometimes that's with mysql_ and sometimes
with mysqli_.

>> And as to how long somebody will work on them - for a long, long time.
> Even ereg is not marked depricated.
>
>> They haven't even been deprecated yet - and something is deprecated
>> years before it's dropped. Plus there are probably billions of LOC
>> which use them.
> As there are billions of LOCs useing &=? Or var?
> Hello, this is PHP!
>

Yep. It is PHP. And mysql_ hasn't been deprecated yet. What is the
shortest amount of time between when you've seen ANY PHP function
deprecated and when it is deprecated?

>> But you never answered my question. Have you heard they might be
>> dropped? Give me some references, instead of guesses.
> Nothing I could cite, no.
>
>> And just because there is something new doesn't mean the old is unusable!
> No, not usable. But still stupid to teach it to a newbie.
>

Only in your opinion. It can be quite usable, and quite useful.


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