Since ever people are confused by _GET and _POST superglobals, because, despite their name, they do not (really) depend on the request method. Therefor I propose to phase out $_GET and name it $_QUERY and I propose to phase out $_POST and name it $_FORM (I'm not 100% confident with the latter yet, though).
Further, I propose to remove the POST method restriction for handling request bodies and solely rely on the content type to trigger the parser(s). (*) There are already parsers for application/x-www-form-urlencoded and multipart/form-data in the core. One could think of providing an API to add content type handlers from extensions, ext/json may be an example, like it is hacked into pecl_http-v2. Thoughts, objections, insults? (*) We'd probably have to revisit all *post* INI variables, though. -- Regards, Mike -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
