#45272 [Opn]: no ini setting to inhibit conversion of dots to underscores in $_REQUEST

ID: 45272 User updated by: tavin dot cole at gmail dot com Reported By: tavin dot cole at gmail dot com Status: Open Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: any PHP Version: 5.2.6 New Comment: the following is a trivial patch for those needing a workaround to this problem. it only inhibits the munging of dots and doesn't address things like spaces and square brackets. it also doesn't address introducing an INI setting. diff -ru php-5.2.6._dist/main/php_variables.c php-5.2.6._mine/main/php_variables.c --- php-5.2.6._dist/main/php_variables.c 2007-12-31 07:20:15.000000000 +0000 +++ php-5.2.6._mine/main/php_variables.c 2008-06-14 23:34:25.000000000 +0000 @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ /* ensure that we don't have spaces or dots in the variable name (not binary safe) */ for (p = var; *p; p++) { - if (*p == ' ' || *p == '.') { + if (*p == ' ' /*|| *p == '.'*/) { *p='_'; } else if (*p == '[') { is_array = 1; Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-06-14 23:01:55] tavin dot cole at gmail dot com Description: ------------ It's well known that PHP converts dots to underscores for incoming variable names. This is very frustrating when writing modern PHP code with register_globals off and using $_REQUEST etc. instead. It's been stated this will not be changed due to BC issues. Why not introduce an INI setting to inhibit this behavior? Thanks for your consideration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45272&edit=1