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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] New globals for PUT and DELETE
From: ben@benramsey.com (Ben Ramsey)


On Oct 14, 2014, at 8:25 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:

> Let=92s add $_REQUEST_BODY and $_QUERY_STRING and make them aliases of =
$_GET and $_POST then. Because they=92re aliases (by-reference =
superglobals), there=92s no additional memory consumption, but we =
finally have saner names.

But they are neither the request body nor the query string at that =
point. They are arrays that represent them. I agree that $_GET and =
$_POST are left-overs from a bygone day. Introducing aliases adds more =
confusion, IMHO.

-Ben