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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 06:09:18 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] New globals for PUT and DELETE
From: kris.craig@gmail.com (Kris Craig)

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On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 5:54 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:

>
> On 14 Oct 2014, at 13:47, Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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/
>
>
The problem with that approach though is that it would not be RESTful.  I'm
developing a REST API (with the goal of 100% REST compliance) and having
PUT/DELETE variables mixed in with $_POST would not only be
counter-intuitive, but it would just present a new roadblock.
Incorporating GET in there, as well, would make things even worse.

Basically, if we have $_GET and $_POST, then we should also have $_PUT and
$_DELETE.  Either that, or they should all be tossed.  There's no reason
why $_PUT and $_DELETE should not also exist.

--Kris

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