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.


[1] - http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/att_input_name.asp


- Mark

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