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The mysqli extension in PHP is fine to use and has advantages over PDO if you only ever plan to interface with MySQL. Now, if it was recommending the mysql exte
by Master_Odin 5y ago
The mysqli extension in PHP is fine to use and has advantages over PDO if you only ever plan to interface with MySQL. Now, if it was recommending the mysql extension, that would be bad as that's been deprecated and replaced by mysqli for a very long time.