[mikeash]

I completely agree. However, the PHP community is still a huge part of the server-side web community, so they're largely representative even if nobody else follows their lead.

[astrodust]

Representative of what? No other community follows PHP. If anything, PHP is trying to imitate other languages with varying degrees of success.

[mikeash]

Representative of themselves, really. The point being that even if PHP is different from everything else, PHP is big enough that their wacky antics are still significant, and PHP alone is enough to say that escaping parameters in SQL is still widespread.