On Wed, 2013-10-02 at 14:50 +0100, Andrea Faulds wrote: > > Le 2 octobre 2013 à 13:27, Michael Wallner <m...@php.net> a écrit : > > > > > > On 2 October 2013 13:12, Leigh <lei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 2 October 2013 07:59, Michael Wallner <m...@php.net> wrote: > > > > > > You certainly won't be able to remove $_GET / $_POST (implied by > > > "phase out") in any 5.x release, it's just too big of a BC break. > > > > Right, that's why I said "phase out". Check out register_long_arrays; > > those globals have been deprecated in PHP-5.0 and removed in PHP-5.4. > > > Huh, $_GET and the other superglobals were added in 4.1 to replace the > $HTTP_GET_VARS etc., and then the old way was deprecated in PHP-5.0 and > removed > in PHP-5.4. > Well, perhaps $_QUERY and $_FORM can be added in 5.6, deprecated in 6.0 and > removed in 6.4, then? Who knows!
Also comparing to get rid of $_* with $HTTP_*_VARS is misleading as the HTTP_*_VARS were of limited use. register_globals was primarily used. johannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
