> > > > 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"]. > > > > > > // obviously this is some busted garbage > > > $name.Array["first"]="Chris"; > > > $name.Array["last"]="Wesley"; > > > $name=$name.Array["first"]." ".$name.Array["last"]; > > > > That assumes register_globals is ON, though, which isn't recommended. If you > > read the questions, the poster talks about using the value such as > > There aren't two different lexigraphical parsers if you turn > register_globals on or off. So, PHP either allows ALL variables to have a > "." in their name, or disallow it altogether. So, moving outside of the > narrow case of POST variable names is what I did *after thoroughly reading > and thinking about the question*. (Somebody missed the Lex & Yacc hint.)
I'm not familar with the core code of PHP at all, but what would happend if this "feature" was just disabled? For everyone with rg OFF, it wouldn't affect them, right? If rg is ON and you never use a period in a variable name, then it shouldn't affect you either, right? What is someone actually did, though? Would it cause PHP to shit itself or just make a weird variable name? My point was that who cares what it does, because it's only going to affect people with rg ON, anyhow, that try using a period, right? > > $_POST['name.Array'], which is valid. Since it's encouraged to have register > > globals OFF, I think they should do aways with this period to underscore > > thing, also. It will only jack up people's code that rely on > > register_globals and they should be changing it anyhow. > > As long as it's possible to turn register_globals on, this will have to be > a problem. I'd vote for tearing this bandaid off, getting rid of > register_globals altogether, and undo all the idiosyncrasies it causes, > but that's just me (and others who think similarly). Yeah, I agree, but we both know that won't happen for a while. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
