At 08:32 AM 6/27/2002 -0700, Brian France wrote:
>Hello,
>
> I have a url that ends with ?.value=1, but PHP returns this in
> $_REQUEST as _value instead of .value. I believe this is because of this code:
>
>main/php_variables.c
>104 /* ensure that we don't have spaces or dots in the variable
>name (not binary safe) */
>105 for (p=var; *p; p++) {
>106 switch(*p) {
>107 case ' ':
>108 case '.':
>109 *p='_';
>110 break;
>111 }
>112 }
>
>
>I can do this: $_REQUEST['.name'] = "testing" then if I do
>print_r($_REQUEST) prints it out as .value and not _value. Any reason for
>being able to do one, but not the other? Also what is the "(not binary
>safe)" part of a variable with a . in its name?
I guess this is a left over from register globals as you can't access
variables with . such as $image.x won't work (yeah you could always use
indirect references but I'm just saying what was probably the reasoning
behind this).
Don't expect it to change because it'll kill a huge amount of PHP scripts.
Andi
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