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Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 08:01:00 +0200
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To: Michael Shadle <mike503@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Why does $_REQUEST exist?
From: patrick.allaert@gmail.com (Patrick ALLAERT)

2009/5/15 Michael Shadle <mike503@gmail.com>
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Nathan Rixham <nrixham@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > bc? all the reasoning in the world won't justify it to 1 million busine=
sses
> > running php 4 code which is reliant on $_REQUEST behind the scenes.
> >
> > although it would generate a tonne of freelance work :p
>
> that code has to change for 5.3 or 6.0 anyway.
>
> now is the time to yank out some of the legacy crap. we don't want PHP
> to be like windows, do we?

Hello,

I think Michael's vision is right in this area, maybe bc could just be
achieved having a "register_request" INI parameter that is set by
default to OFF that people just have to enable if they rely on
$_REQUEST.
We could manage it the same way register_globals is:
"This feature has been=C2=A0DEPRECATED=C2=A0as of PHP 5.3.0 and=C2=A0REMOVE=
D=C2=A0as of PHP 6.0.0"

Patrick