Re: RE: ; arg seperator

hi, > > There was a discussion about things to break in 4.1. magic_quotes_gpc would > > definitely be my favourite. I'd like to see it set to off for good and > > removed from php.ini. > > I'd be completely against removing the concept of magic_quotes altogether. > We can discuss changing the default, but for someone writing simple sql > pages, it is extremely handy to have PHP deal with escaping stuff for you > so you don't have a bunch of addslashes() calls everywhere. perhapse all those topics must be decided on a statistical basis. lets name it: count of boxes broken if arg_separator is '&;' count of boxes that dont care about arg_separator default count of boxes that need arg_separator to be '&;' count of boxes relying on magic_quotes_gpc count of boxes that dont care about magic_quotes_gpc count of boxes that need magic_quotes_gpc set to off the decision must break least possible count of php setups when they upgrade to the newest version. it would be a disaster for people who have a running server/site and everything or even worse something somewhere goes wrong. not to speak about hosting providers who upgrade farms of servers. their users will have to track problems that occur depending on the input data and mostly in rare cases. i think this will be a negative impact on many sites making people reluctant to upgrade to newer php versions. php4.0.5 is not that better that 4.0.x compared to the difference between 3 and 4 to afford to break existing functionality... b.