On Wed, 2013-10-02 at 08:59 +0200, Michael Wallner wrote: > 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).
The later is certainly misleading. The current naming corresponds to HTML forms. <form method="GET"> -> $_GET <form method="POST"> -> $_POST I agree that the naming from a HTTP/REST etc. perspective is misleading, but unless we have a clearly better naming I would resist from changing these. Changing these leads to an incompatibility which can not be emulated (ignoring runkit there is no way for a user to create a custom super global) In case that is ignored please mind other related areas, i.e. filter_input() to make sure the resulting new language is consistent. johannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
