On 07/10/2013 18:19, Daniel Lowrey wrote:
>> You can't efficiently model an HTTP request with associative
arrays. Period.
> The fact is that for 99% of use cases, yes you can, and developers
> happily do so.
Leaky abstraction is leaky. If this is truly an efficient model of the
HTTP request t
Daniel Lowrey wrote (on 02/10/2013):
Something like the following would be an infinitely superior solution:
interface HttpRequest {
While having a quick look for userland parsing functions earlier, I came
upon the PECL http extension, which includes this all-singing object:
http://www.php.n
> Uhmmm... I actually meant an interal API not userland :)
Hehe, I'd be really excited to see this in userland too. Happy to help make
this happen unless people have good reasons not to expose the parsers ...
On Wed, 2013-10-02 at 17:47 +0200, Florian Anderiasch wrote:
> On 02.10.2013 17:29, Daniel Lowrey wrote:
> > The superglobals are a hopelessly poor abstraction. Can we stop trying to
> > put the proverbial gold ring in the pig's snout on this?
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Something like the following woul
On 02.10.2013 17:29, Daniel Lowrey wrote:
> The superglobals are a hopelessly poor abstraction. Can we stop trying to
> put the proverbial gold ring in the pig's snout on this?
>
> [...]
>
> Something like the following would be an infinitely superior solution:
>
> interface HttpRequest {
> fu
The superglobals are a hopelessly poor abstraction. Can we stop trying to
put the proverbial gold ring in the pig's snout on this?
While a change to `$_QUERY` and `$_BODY` would undoubtedly be an
improvement I don't think the massive BC breaks that would result are
justified by simply improving va
