Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:42609 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 92037 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2009 16:01:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Jan 2009 16:01:06 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=brianm@dealnews.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=brianm@dealnews.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain dealnews.com from 72.5.90.27 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: brianm@dealnews.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 72.5.90.27 smtp.dealnews.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [72.5.90.27] ([72.5.90.27:47870] helo=smtp.dealnews.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id B8/9C-42308-0CABC694 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:01:05 -0500 Received: (qmail 18178 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2009 16:01:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.dealnews.com) (10.1.10.7) by -H with ESMTPS (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted); 13 Jan 2009 16:01:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 14771 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2009 16:01:01 -0000 Received: from 17.2.1.10.in-addr.arpa (brianm@10.1.2.17) by -H with ESMTPA; 13 Jan 2009 16:01:01 -0000 Message-ID: <496CBABD.6010606@dealnews.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:01:01 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20081006 Shredder/3.0a3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexey Zakhlestin CC: troels knak-nielsen , PHP Developers Mailing List References: <98b8086f0901130132l15eb4cc5kb85fa7ab557cbd2e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] $_GET['a.b.c'] From: brianm@dealnews.com (Brian Moon) On 1/13/09 4:09 AM, Alexey Zakhlestin wrote: > In 6.0, on the other hand, register_globals is not available. So, it > doesn't make sense to have replacement there too. > > 5.3 is left with status-quo: > ?a.b.c=10 => $a_b_c, $_GET['a_b_c'] > > 6.0 will have: > ?a.b.c=10 => $_GET['a.b.c'] What about the extract() and import_request_variables() functions? Will it still do the replacement? I foresee a lot of stop gap solutions using those functions to get around register_globals. Not saying it is right, just curious. -- Brian Moon Senior Web Engineer ------------------------------ When you care enough to spend the very least. http://dealnews.com/