On 15-Nov-06, at 5:12 AM, Christopher Kunz wrote:
Hi all,
I think I posted about this quite some time ago, but the issue is
(as of PHP
5.2.0) still there:
- Request variables that have leading whitespace are trimmed before
being
imported into the respective superglobal array.
- Request variables that have trailing whitespace have all
whitespace converted
to _ before being imported into the respective superglobal array.
I presume this is still from the good old day of register_globals
where men
where men and variables were autoglobal. Having a request variable
with a space
wasn't desirable back then ("$ foo - huh?!"), but since r_g is
going to go in
PHP6 anyway, wouldn't this be a good moment to change this behavior
to what (at
least AFAICT) other languages do?
While I agree that the impact maybe low, there are people who depend
on this behavior. Just because filtering modules/extension life would
be much easier if spaces were left as is, does not seem like a
particularly compelling reason to drop the behavior imho.
Ilia Alshanetsky
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