About Avoid the Original MySQL Extension, Part 1

Experienced developers eschew the original MySQL extension because of its abandoned status in PHP. Nascent web developers, however, may be completely oblivious to its dormant past and dying future. Its the intention of this two-part series to raise awareness among developers who still use it, to inform them of its problems, and to help them switch over to an alternative extension. After all, who really wants to write a script knowing that it wont work in a near-future version of PHP? In this part we focus on MySQLi. This entry is part of the series Avoid the MySQL Extension