PHP 7 makes life a lot better for PHP devs in many ways but one awesome thing is it obsoletes bunch of out-of-date tutorials by finally removing the old Mysql extension \o&#x2F;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;php.net&#x2F;manual&#x2F;en&#x2F;migration70.removed-exts-sapis.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;php.net&#x2F;manual&#x2F;en&#x2F;migration70.removed-exts-sapis.php</a><p>I actually met a young aspiring web developer who still learned DB-access with mysql_* functions. I urged him to switch to a sane framework like Laravel. Oh boy he was happy in a month and learned bunch of best practices quickly.