On 10/14/2014 06:29 AM, Andrea Faulds wrote: > > On 14 Oct 2014, at 14:27, Kristopher <kristopherwil...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> $_HTTP_REQUEST_BODY and $_HTTP_QUERY_STRING for nostalgia's sake. > > Ew, non-superglobals. > > But $_REQUEST_BODY and $_QUERY_STRING are a bit lengthy. Perhaps $_QUERY (for > $_GET) and $_BODY (for $_POST)? Then the variable set finally makes sense, > but isn’t too long: > > * $_QUERY - query string parameters > * $_BODY - request body parameters > * $_REQUEST - query string and request body parameters > > Makes more sense than $_GET and $_POST. > > Any objections?
It makes no sense to me to make $_BODY an alias for $_POST. $_POST implies the default body encoding that a broswer performs on a POST request. Making an alias called $_BODY that doesn't contain the body of a request unless it is "POST"-encoded would be super confusing. I think the pedantry level around this is rather high. Nobody is actually confused about $_GET and $_POST and how and when to use them. Adding vague aliases adds confusion to something that had no confusion before. -Rasmus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
