Yes, a $_FORM variable container is also on my TODO list for the new
track_vars implementation...
At 14:00 27/07/2001, Brian Tanner wrote:
>Brian Foddy actually brings up a really important issue, which would go
>along way to making (at least me) much happier with the proposed change.
>
>*If* there will be:
>
>$_Get[]
>$_Post[]
>$_Cookie[]
>
>-- can we also have something else to the tune of:
>
>$_External or $_User or $_Something
>
>That gets populated based on the ordering set for GPC right now in the .ini
>file? I think it would go really far towards helping a newbie (and to
>helping people fix their existing code), if there was one place that they
>could look, to find the old value that they are now missing.
>
>People can still go to _Get, _Post, and _Cookie if they require that level
>of granularity, but I think most will be happy with a general container for
>what Register_Globals *would* have done.
>
>-Brian T
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>If I can just interject once, I was a bit skeptical of this thread at
>first
>but I'm starting to come around to Zeev's point of view. Security aside
>(which I know it shouldn't be) I found in my own coding I always started
>naming post or get variables like
>$form_user_name or $post_user_name so I could easily tell just by
>looking at individual sections of the code that this variable was web
>input, vs my own internal variable. But even still, it can be confusing
>to newbes trying to understand "just how did this variable get its
>value?".
>Having the $_GET[
>"post_user_name"] is much more straight forward.
>
>But is there a $_POST call also? Making a important distinction between
>data posted or getted input? If so, that may be a small inconvienence.
>
>Good debate tho, and well timed for other issues I'm dealing with.
>
>Brian
>
>
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