Hi Mark 2008/11/11 Mark van der Velden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sorry for bringing an old thread back to life, but imo this needs some > more attention. > > > Sebastian wrote: >> hi, >> >> PHP6 still replaces "." with an underscore in variables from outside. this >> is an old behavior forced by register globals so i would say its a bug since >> "." is valid in array keys. >> >> for sample: >> >> call a script like http://www.example.com/?my.var=1 >> >> now $_GET will look like this: >> >> Array ( [my_var] => 1) >> >> Thanks >> > > It's a valid HTML input name attribute character [1] and imo the > replacement feature (where ' ' and '.' characters are replaced to '_') > should be removed in PHP 6, when the register_globals feature is removed. > > There will be PHP applications that need changing, but I estimate that > it will be fixed easily. And since PHP 6 is breaking a lot anyway, what > other version would be more suitable to change this.
I don't see it would work with something like import_request_variables() unless thats removed or extract(), which is some of the reasons for this replacement feature afair. > > > [1] - http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/att_input_name.asp > > > - Mark > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Kalle Sommer Nielsen -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
