Ejaz Ahmad - 2011-07-15 18:41:30
This case also highlights the importance of use of db abstraction (or db abstraction class).
If your apps use db abstraction class then moving to mysqli or PDO is the just a matter of change in the config of db class.
Certain unexpected things may also happen in future, so, its best to be safe and use a method which could be easily ported to another system as well.