PHP has a few "clever" and "helpful" features. For example, a posted hub.verify is accessed as $_POST['hub_verify']. Besides Jay's observation, it also munges the period character into an underscore during parsing. I believe it does the same thing for a few other characters. So yes, self implemented parsing is almost a given for protocols like Pubsubhubbub. Normal web apps design around all this by force of habit - it's surprising how many PHP developers aren't even aware it's a problem...
I really love PHP, but it can try even my patience sometimes ;). Pádraic Brady http://blog.astrumfutura.com http://www.survivethedeepend.com OpenID Europe Foundation Irish Representative ________________________________ From: Jay Rossiter <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, October 19, 2009 8:47:19 PM Subject: [pubsubhubbub] Re: hub.verify - clarification on repeated keywords/parameters? On 10/19/2009 9:12 AM, Brett Slatkin wrote: Python's CGI module will give you back a set of key/list pairs, with >the values listed in the order they appeared in the string. >Query-string encoding does enough variable munging that we shouldn't >have to add yet another level of parsing on top of that, which is why >we're going with #1. How hard is it to make this work right in PHP for >clients? > The issue with PHP is their inane refusal to natively support repeated parameters. Repeated parameters must be passed in an array format. hub.verify[]=sync&hub.verify[]=async If passed in a normally specified way (hub.verify=&hub.verify=) .. the latter parameters simply overwrite the former. Variable stomping. You have to fread "php://input" (the raw POST stream) and parse it into variables on your own. -- Jay Rossiter | Software Engineer/System Administrator Pioneering RSS Advertising Solutions [email protected] | Phone: 503.896.6187 | Fax: 503.235.2216 Website: www.pheedo.com | RSS: www.pheedo.info/index.xml
