Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:54536 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 37094 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2011 13:20:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Aug 2011 13:20:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.113.146.227 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.113.146.227 xdebug.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.113.146.227] ([82.113.146.227:48441] helo=xdebug.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id B5/60-40016-B88254E4 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:20:12 -0400 Received: from localhost (xdebug.org [127.0.0.1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1C3BDDE142; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:20:09 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:20:08 +0100 (BST) X-X-Sender: derick@whisky To: Laruence cc: PHP Internals In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] behavior of translating dot in the query variable name into underscore character From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Laruence wrote: > a request uri : http://***/a.b=2 will result $_GET["a_b"] = 2 ( > the dot was translated into underscore char); > > my point is , since register_globals has be removed already( in > my opinion this behavior only make sence when register_globals on), > should we remove this translating behavior too? No. No reason to change anything that isn't broken. Chanhing this will mean a BC break, even for people that don't use register_globals. Derick