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My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it


In 2014 I wrote http_build_url, a temporary PHP polyfill for AOL's CMS. Twelve years and nearly 20 million installs later, I'm deprecating it.

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