Doc #77172 [Ver->Csd]: convert error on receiving variables from external sources

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77172&edit=1 ID: 77172 Updated by: cmb@php.net Reported by: zhoumengkang@php.net Summary: convert error on receiving variables from external sources -Status: Verified +Status: Closed Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem Operating System: Linux PHP Version: master-Git-2018-11-18 (Git) Assigned To: cmb Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-11-19 13:11:23] cmb@php.net Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of cmb Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&amp;revision=346017 Log: Fix #77172: convert error on receiving variables from external sources ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-11-19 12:49:04] cmb@php.net I think that an external variable foo[]boo should not be treated as array at all, but be registered verbatim. However, this would likely be a rather severe BC break, so we should document it for now. For PHP 8 we may be able to implement feature request #34882 (and also to cater to cases like reported in this ticket). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-11-18 04:43:18] zhoumengkang@php.net Description: ------------ when php receivie the data from external sources, a variables named foo[]boo will be saved into $_POST['foo'][]; doc has noted dots and spaces in variable names are converted to underscores. @see http://php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php but there no info tell developers variables can't be named foo[]boo, otherwise the variable foo[]boo should be remove ? Test script: --------------- <form method="post"> <input type="text" name="id[]" value="1"> <input type="text" name="id[]_text" value="a"> <input type="submit"> </form> Expected result: ---------------- array ( 'id' => array ( 0 => '1', ), ) Actual result: -------------- array ( 'id' => array ( 0 => '1', 1 => 'a', ), ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77172&edit=1