Req #60219 [Com]: POSTDATA periods (.) being converted to underscores (_)

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60219&edit=1 ID: 60219 Comment by: rtrtrtrtrt at dfdfdfdf dot dfd Reported by: kieran at menor dot dk Summary: POSTDATA periods (.) being converted to underscores (_) Status: Suspended Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Unknown/Other Function PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: > And a laughable behaviour of a notoriously unprofessional language funny when people using non-alphanumeric chars for variables talking about unprofessional Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2021-07-22 19:15:46] nospam at unclassified dot de Sorry, that's your process not mine. To me, this isn't a serious BC break but just a serious PITA. And a laughable behaviour of a notoriously unprofessional language (which it will probably remain forever, because of BC). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2021-07-02 15:37:58] cmb@php.net This change would constitute a serious BC break, and such requires the RFC process[1]. Instead of complaining, just do the work. Thanks! [1] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/howto> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2021-05-28 18:11:26] ggggh dot fggg at fghb dot cf and why can't you just not use a-z and underlines like every normal human being does for variable names? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2021-05-28 18:06:18] nospam at unclassified dot de I just ran into this as well. I set a cookie with setcookie() and it just wasn't read anymore. Firefox showed it to me but PHP was just blind. Dumping $_COOKIE showed me another cookie with an underscore where I had put a dot. PHP still does that crap from the last century. Doesn't seem like anybody at the PHP team cares about doing things right for once. How typical. I guess PHP remains a hacky language forever, not suitable for serious work. PS: Voting is broken in this bug tracker, too. I voted and got an empty page. Probably an unhandled server error, due to some weirdness of the PHP language. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-01-23 22:32:42] tim at xi dot co dot nz See: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/url_dots ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60219 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60219&edit=1