Re: $_POST var name char conversion "." to "_"
| From: | Chris Shiflett | Date: | Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:30:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: $_POST var name char conversion "." to "_" | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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--- ROBERT MCPEAK <RMCPEAK@jhuccp.org> wrote:
> Has anybody seen the seemingly automatic and unexplained conversion of
> the character "." to "_" in $_POST var names?
This is intentional. The "." character is not allowed in a variable name,
so PHP has to translate your HTML form's variable name to a PHP one
somehow, and this is what it does.
Hope that helps.
Chris
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