Re: Stop replacing dots with underscores in query, post and cookie parameters for PHP 8?

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 3:40 AM Arnold Daniels <arnold.adaniels.nl@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > PHP replaces dots with underscores for $_GET, $_POST and $_COOKIE. This > behavior once made sense because of Register globals. The explanation in > the manual also still implies that query and post parameters are converted > to variables (see >  �F�h�b > zh+��https://php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php#language.variables.external.dot-in-names). > Register globals has been removed since 5.4.0 and thus this behavior serves > little purpose. > > I think it would be good to remove the conversion in PHP 8, as it's a > general cause of confusion and annoyance for anyone who comes across it. > > Is there a good reason to keep this behavior in PHP 8? > This has been discussed a few times already, and I think that everyone agrees that this behavior should go, but not necessarily on the migration path. There is an RFC here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/on_demand_name_mangling I think that the latest version of that RFC, that basically proposes to drop the behavior and tell people to use a polyfill is fine. Nikita