I think it's only a problem if you're using mysql_ instead of mysqli_.
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/installation-issues-with-php5/
Since mysql_ is being deprecated soon (so they say, maybe PHP6 haha), it'd be good to migrate to mysqli_ anyway.
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/installation-issues-with-php5/
Since mysql_ is being deprecated soon (so they say, maybe PHP6 haha), it'd be good to migrate to mysqli_ anyway.
Are, nope.
PHP's long-lived popularity means there's a huge amount of ancient PHP articles and tutorials still out there on the web that use the old library. Because these articles are both old and widely linked-to, they tend to come up when newbies search for PHP help. So they learn how to do things the wrong/deprecated way.
Resources like PHP the Right Way (http://www.phptherightway.com/) help counter this, but it'll continue to be a problem as long as using the old library doesn't cause any obvious problems like immediate crashes, screaming in-your-face error messages, etc.
generalpf: I will do so! Do you have any go-to references that you prefer? Or shall I just dig through the PHP docs?
I think that for a comment at some level of nesting N, the ability to replay is delayed by Y seconds. IIRC this is to prevent stupid back-and-forth arguments.