> There's also functionality in PHP that shouldn't have been removed (register_globals) but should have been defaulted to disabled. It was for years! They dep

> There's also functionality in PHP that shouldn't have been removed (register_globals) but should have been defaulted to disabled. It was for years! They deprecated the feature. It was default disabled in php.ini. And now, as you said, if you really still need it you can code it yourself (I had to). > And don't get me started about the annoyance that was removing mysql_* support. I'm pretty sure that library isn't supported by MySQL server anymore (it's their library) so that's why it was removed. You can even use it to connect to newer versions of MySQL as the protocol changed.