It's a pretty dumb argument to make on the basis that no functionality was lost (There is both the MySQLi extension, and the more general PDO one), and if you r

It's a pretty dumb argument to make on the basis that no functionality was lost (There is both the MySQLi extension, and the more general PDO one), and if you really, really can't get the budget to refactor it, you can drop a single shim file in to "get those functions back" while using either of the mentioned extensions to do the actual work.