hi Rasmus, As the ini_all option sounds appealing, I can imagine ISPs willing to do not allow their users to change this value, and that's something I would not allow random users either.
I'd to go with the optional argument, adding a clear in the documentation about the confusing error message. Cheers, On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf <ras...@lerdorf.com> wrote: > It is somewhat unintuitive that parse_str() is subject to the > max_input_vars limitation and there are sites that use parse_str() to > parse things that aren't directly coming from user query args. > There arr two ways to solve this. We could add an optional max_vars arg > something along these lines: > > https://gist.github.com/2038870 > > The other way to solve this would be to make max_input_vars PHP_INI_ALL > and then just let people ini_set() their way around the limit. > > The one drawback with the optional arg approach is that since > parse_str() is a thin layer on top of the query string parser, the error > if you exceed the passed max_vars talks about the ini setting which in > this case wouldn't really be correct and fixing that would be complicated. > > -Rasmus > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php