you're focusing on a function with a known limitation, that was superceded 15 years ago and practically everyone used mysql_real since then. That's not the reas

you're focusing on a function with a known limitation, that was superceded 15 years ago and practically everyone used mysql_real since then. That's not the reason why the module was removed though. The reason is that the mysql_* functions are "too low level for noobs". https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16859477/why-are-phps-mysql-functions-deprecated https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16859477/why-are-phps-my...