Re: Should $foo and $HTTP_GET_VARS["foo"] be references to each other?

* Zeev Suraski (zeev@zend.com) [2000-02-26 22:55]: > What's the general consensus, if we can reach one... Should $foo and > $HTTP_GET_VARS["foo"] be references to each other? In other words, if one I think you should consider carefully the implications of introducing this change of behaviour. I can se merits of the new way, but is it important enough that you want to introduce another incompatibility for it? Look at this scary example: <? $secret="X"; if ($secret == $HTTP_POST_VARS["secret"]) #always true in php4b4 print "You're in"; ?> Granted, the above code is a simplified example, but it shows that reasonable sane code may be affected. I have had severel scripts fail after moving to php4b4 because of this change. Consider this a piece of evidence from real life use of PHP. I don't feel qualified to give advise as to which of the ways is the best.. I just posted a note to the PHP4BETA list regarding this issue. Didn't see this thread before now, so sorry for the redundancy. - peter -- ln -s /dev/random ~/.plan