I found that this article was extremely useful and covered information on why the original MySQL extension is a bad idea to use today.
It is my opinion that MySQLi or PDO is a much better option available, as they cover things like SQLinjection
Avoid the original MySQL extension – By Thomas Punt.
-Thomas Kauran
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