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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 22:37:12 +0300
To: Arnold Daniels <arnold.adaniels.nl@gmail.com>, bishop@php.net
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Stop replacing dots with underscores in query, post and
 cookie parameters for PHP 8?
From: lauri.kentta@gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Lauri_Kentt=C3=A4?=)

On 2019-07-16 04:39, Arnold Daniels wrote:
> PHP replaces dots with underscores for $_GET, $_POST and $_COOKIE.
> Is there a good reason to keep this behavior in PHP 8?
> 

There's a BC break that should be noted:

<input type=image name=i> produces i.x=1&i.y=2

Since the dots can't be changed with HTML, this would then require 
different code to support both PHP 7 and 8.

Also, now that we're at it, what about the following:

i[].x=1 currently produces ['i' => [0 => '1']], losing the x.

i[x].y=1&i[x].z=2 produces ['i' => ['x' => '2']].

Maybe something to be done to address these cases?

-- 
Lauri Kenttä