[PHP] Allowing . in $_POST variable

[Mike Potter]

Hi all:
I filled a bug today that quickly got resolved invalid, but I think it deserves another look.
I had a bit of a problem today with "." getting converted to "_" for my variable names automatically.
I have been told that this was because if you have register_globals on, then you can't have a variable with a . in its name. Fair enough.
However, since that's now considered to be bad practice, it would make sense to me that this "feature" get another look. I can see no logical reason to not allow . in the global $_POST variable...
Basically, what I'd like is to be able to post a form element with id="myvariable.whatever" and access it on the next page with $_POST["myvariable.whatever"].
Comments are appreciated.
Mike


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