Req #55102 [Com]: add parameter to parse_str to avoid sanitizing of root keys

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55102&edit=1 ID: 55102 Comment by: rok dot kralj at gmail dot com Reported by: giorgio dot liscio at email dot it Summary: add parameter to parse_str to avoid sanitizing of root keys Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: URL related Operating System: Irrelevant PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: This bug has a neat workaround. Just take the root keys, encode them (so dots and other special characters are hidden), then use parse_str. You can take the code from here, just attribute it. https://stackoverflow.com/a/18209799/924109 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-07-01 19:02:06] felipe@php.net Changing to Feature request. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-07-01 09:31:45] giorgio dot liscio at email dot it Description: ------------ hi, this is probably an old behavior to make php backward compatible when register_global was enabled parse_str("hey all=1",$r); ---> array('hey_all' => '1'); parse_str is now widely used in xmlhttprequest communication and may cause a lot of issues and waste of time when debugging because we are not able to know how exactly what type of character sanitizing is made to root keys yep, only root keys are sanitized because parse_str("aaa[hey all]=1",$r); ---> array('aaa' => array('hey all', '1')); works like expected so my request is not to change the default behavior of this function (and how $_GET $_POST etc are populated) but add another parameter to this function for who wants root keys parsed without sanitizing void parse_str ( string $str [, array &$arr ] [, bool $bwcompatible = true]) thank you ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55102&edit=1