Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:77974 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 39997 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2014 12:55:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Oct 2014 12:55:04 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.216 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.216 imap10-3.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.216] ([192.64.116.216:52766] helo=imap10-3.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 8A/72-26074-72D1D345 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:55:04 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 013DD24005D; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:55:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap10.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap10.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id zcvngBpdRvWG; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:55:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from oa-res-26-28.wireless.abdn.ac.uk (oa-res-26-28.wireless.abdn.ac.uk [137.50.26.28]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9F06E2400DC; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:54:58 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 13:54:55 +0100 Cc: PHP internals list Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <776669CE-9E8C-4069-9834-C7275CCA0EF4@ajf.me> References: To: Kris Craig X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] New globals for PUT and DELETE From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 14 Oct 2014, at 13:47, Kris Craig wrote: > Hey guys, >=20 > Does anybody know why we have $_GET and $_POST, but not $_PUT and > $_DELETE? As far as I can tell, the only way to get these out = currently is > to parse their values by reading the incoming stream directly. >=20 > Is there a reason why we don't want this or is it just that nobody has > actually written it yet? $_GET and $_POST are really misnomers. $_GET is query string parameters, = $_POST is request body data. We should just put the request bodies for all requests, not just POST, = into $_POST. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/