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submitted 8 months ago by LinearArray@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Blame MySQL for that. The PHP API just mirrors the MySQL C API of the same name. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/c-api/8.0/en/mysql-real-escape-string.html

Modern PHP doesn't use it - any modern code uses PDO with prepared statements.