Re: Looking for a reasonable explanation as to why $_REQUEST exists

On 7/7/08, Eric Butera <eric.butera@gmail.com> wrote: > You asked for an explanation. I was just stating that is how I've > seen some people write apps. I've also stated that isn't how I write > them either. I use something along these lines: This is true. I really wanted to ask the internals folks first, to see how it came up. I mean, if there wasn't the option available, people would figure out a way to do it (probably one of the two ways I was showing before) The problem is, the cat's out of the bag now and a lot of people are just being lazy (in my mind) especially those who are used to ASP's Request.Value() which unfortunately is a lot of our developers at work. They don't have a real good background as to the difference between POST vs GET and even how the web works it seems. That's why in the library I've created for us to use, I unset() it before it's usable. Most third party software works okay too - off the top of my head we've got Pligg, WordPress, MediaWiki all using hooks into my library - a couple I did have to do a $_REQUEST = array_merge($_POST, $_GET) on, unfortunately.