On Wed, 5 Feb 2025, Christoph M. Becker wrote: > There is some discussion on a recent bug report[1] about > filter_input() and related functionality. The bug report had been > closed, because this functionality has already been added to the > general deprecation RFC for PHP 8.5[2]. Then the OP raised a point > regarding the usefulness of filter_input() to get at the original > input, to avoid working with possibly modified superglobals. > > In my opinion, this topic should be discussed here, and not in a bug > report. So, has anybody thoughts about the filter_input() > deprecation?
I don't think they need to be deprecated, just because it is "confusing". They were added specifically so that you could operate on the original raw data. cheers, Derick
