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Originally Posted by artwilliams
Cliff Notes? Move to PHP 7 ASAP or you'll be fucked (eventually).
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True, BUT...
Many of the scripts we use in this biz are no longer supported, and even if they are, converting them to be PHP 7 compatible is a huge task.
I recently did a major project using PHP and MySQL. In that situation, since it was new from scratch, using code that is PHP 7 compatible was easy, as was using the new MySQLi standard.
Rewriting existing PHP 5.x code or converting MySQL apps to MySQLi is a completely different process. Probably easier to start over from scratch. Either way, the investment is difficult to justify given the current state of the biz.