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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Parsing PUT data
From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds)

On 24/09/2013 17:12, Daniel Lowrey wrote:
 > An inability on your part to write working code doesn't equate to "PHP
 > should implement this for me"

I am not the tone police, but I don't think such comments are helpful.

> Let me be clear: I'm not suggesting we should ignore useful functionality
> because of poor design decisions made in the past but I am saying that we
> should avoid compounding those mistakes by building on top of them. Would a
> $_PUT superglobal be helpful? Sure. But is it a good solution to underlying
> problem? Not really.
>

Indeed. I think what we really need is something like $_REQUEST but for 
the request body exclusively ($_BODY). We'd then have $_GET for query 
parameters and $_BODY for request body (POST, PUT, PATCH, etc.) 
parameters. While at it, why not add a better version of $_GET which 
doesn't replace certain characters with undescores?

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Andrea Faulds
http://ajf.me/