Re: Changes to SuperGlobals for PHP 8 (was: something about session_start...)

From: Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 20:22:30 +0000
Subject: Re: Changes to SuperGlobals for PHP 8 (was: something about session_start...)
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Hi! > On a slight tangent, I consider $_SERVER to be a broken pile of > "we'll just shove this in here and hope for the best", and I will > oppose any attempt to convert it into an object which doesn't > reorganize its keys to be sane, documented, and as cross-platform as > the SAPI layer can make it. :P You cannot make it cross-platform, as it is specifically made for environment consisting the current platform, making it cross-platform would just force you to create yet another one which contains the bits that didn't fit into "cross-platform". As for sane/documented, documenting every quirk of every system is a herculean task, and we don't have too much control about how (in)sane each OS environment could get. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com

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