Bug #18236 Updated: EXACT HTTP POST data access

ID: 18236 Updated by: m.ford@lmu.ac.uk Reported By: foobardotcom@poczta.onet.pl Status: Open Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Linux cyberhq 2.4.19-pre6 #2 SMP PHP Version: 4.2.1 New Comment: Damn, you're right! That'll teach me to read specs more closely (and not to believe everything everyone tells me!!). OK, forget this one for me -- but how about closing or won't-fix-ing all those open feature requests? Cheers and sorry for the bother! Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-07-09 10:02:58] derick@php.net Or with XHTML 1.1: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/abstract_modules.html#s_extformsmodule NAME = CDATA here too ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-07-09 09:59:44] sesser@php.net here is the url: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-07-09 09:57:00] sesser@php.net The claim that [] violates html 4.0 is simply wrong. The html 4.0 specification clearly states that the name attribute for the input tag is of the type CDATA and not of type ID/NAME. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-07-09 07:42:15] markonen@php.net After a brief debate on #php.bugs, it looks like the only suitable alternative syntax would be array-key- = value or array_key_ = value i.e. substituting a hyphen or an underscore for the square brackets. This way we'd be compatible with the "Namespaces in XML" recommendation (at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml- names/) which gives meaning to colons in name tokens. The place to implement this would be php_register_variable_ex() in main/php_variables.c. There will be a small performance penalty. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-07-09 07:07:53] markonen@php.net Right. We need a standards-compliant, alternative syntax for the current array[] feature. The magical convert-all- multiply-defined-vars-to-an-array stuff isn't going to happen. There are just too many issues to deal with on that road. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/18236 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=18236&edit=1