RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: Changes to SuperGlobals for PHP 8 (was: something about session_start...)
| From: | Zeev Suraski | Date: | Sun, 30 Jul 2017 10:36:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: Changes to SuperGlobals for PHP 8 (was: something about session_start...) | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: php@golemon.com [mailto:php@golemon.com] On Behalf Of Sara
> Golemon
> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2017 5:29 PM
> To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
> Cc: PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Changes to SuperGlobals for PHP 8 (was: something
> about session_start...)
>
> On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
> > I'd just like to add that if we were going to make BC-breaking changes
> > to superglobals in PHP 8, we might as well also get rid of the name
> > mangling on keys for $_GET, $_POST and $_REQUEST at the same time
> > ("foo.x" becomes "foo_x" etc, because we used to have register_globals
> > and needed clean variable names).
> >
> Excellent point. I always forget this is a thing we do and it needs to die. Even if
> we leave everything else aboue the super globals alone, this one thing should
> die in PHP 8.
Agreed.
Zeev