From: kop at meme dot com
Operating system: All
PHP version: 4.3.2
PHP Bug Type: Arrays related
Bug description: Enhancement: extract() takes array of keys
I want to get variables passed from the client into local (not global)
variables. If the variable has not been passed from the client I do not
want a local variable defined. While this can be coded for each variable
I want to do this with, there is no way to abstract this operation into a
function.
The (untested) code to get a form variable 'foo' would be:
if (array_key_exists($_POST, 'foo') {
$foo = &{$_POST['foo'])}
}
// $foo may or may not be defined, so if I've got strict
// error checking on I get a nice error if I ref an undefined
//variable. And, $foo is nice and local so it won't show
// where I don't send it.
If extract() took an array of keys as another argument, extracting only
those keys that are in the list, I could get the form variables, foo, bar,
and baz with:
extract($_POST, EXTR_REFS, '', array('foo', 'bar', 'baz'));
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