Deprecated mysqli_ping() (#3847)

Co-authored-by: Christoph M. Becker <[email protected]>

Author: kamil-tekiela

reference/mysqli/mysqli/ping.xml

@@ -58,6 +58,31 @@
   &mysqli.conditionalexception;
  </refsect1>
 
+ <refsect1 role="changelog">
+  &reftitle.changelog;
+  <informaltable>
+   <tgroup cols="2">
+    <thead>
+     <row>
+      <entry>&Version;</entry>
+      <entry>&Description;</entry>
+     </row>
+    </thead>
+    <tbody>
+     <row>
+      <entry>8.4.0</entry>
+      <entry>
+       Both <methodname>mysqli::ping</methodname> and
+       <function>mysqli_ping</function> are now deprecated.
+       The <literal>reconnect</literal> feature has not been available
+       as of PHP 8.2.0, making this function obsolete.
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+    </tbody>
+   </tgroup>
+  </informaltable>
+ </refsect1>
+
  <refsect1 role="examples">
   &reftitle.examples;
   <example>

reference/mysqli/mysqli/thread-id.xml

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
    ID for the current connection which can then be killed using the
    <function>mysqli_kill</function> function. If the connection is lost
    and you reconnect with <function>mysqli_ping</function>, the thread ID
-   will be other. Therefore you should get the thread ID only when you need it.
+   will be different. Therefore you should get the thread ID only when you need it.
   </para>
   <note>
    <para>