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Originally Posted by Fou-Lu
I haven't read anything official on removal of MySQL support (at least I don't think I have. . .), and its not listed as deprecated as of yet. But no I wouldn't be surprised if it just ups and disappears on 6.0 release.
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http://php.net/manual/en/faq.databas...sql.deprecated
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Originally Posted by PHP.net
The old API should not be used, and one day it will be deprecated and eventually removed from PHP. It is a popular extension so this will be a slow process, but you are strongly encouraged to write all new code with either mysqli or PDO_MySQL.
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http://news.php.net/php.internals/53799
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Originally Posted by PHP.net
What this means to ext/mysql:
- Softly deprecate ext/mysql with education (docs) starting today
- Not adding E_DEPRECATED errors in 5.4, but revisit for 5.5/6.0
- Add pdo_mysql examples within the ext/mysql docs that mimic the current
examples, but occasionally introduce features like prepared statements
- Focus energy on cleaning up the pdo_mysql and mysqli documentation
- Create a general "The MySQL situation" document that explains the situation
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So no, not officially deprecated yet, but not far off.