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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 21:38:58 -0500
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To: Arnold Daniels <arnold.adaniels.nl@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Stop replacing dots with underscores in query, post and
 cookie parameters for PHP 8?
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

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On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 8:39 PM Arnold Daniels <arnold.adaniels.nl@gmail.com>
wrote:
> PHP replaces dots with underscores for $_GET, $_POST and $_COOKIE.
> This behavior once made sense because of Register globals.
> The explanation in the manual also still implies that query and
> post parameters are converted to variables
> (see
https://php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php#language.variables.external.dot-in-names
).
> Register globals has been removed since 5.4.0 and thus this behavior
serves little purpose.
>
> I think it would be good to remove the conversion in PHP 8, as it's a
general cause of confusion and annoyance for anyone who comes across it.
>
> Is there a good reason to keep this behavior in PHP 8?
>
IMO, we can safely kill this.  If anyone needs this behavior preserved, it
can be mimicked with half a dozen lines of PHP, or heck we can include a
function to call.  I will, however, be very surprised if anyone misses this
by now.

-Sara

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