Re: Deprecate filter_input() or not?
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:19:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Deprecate filter_input() or not? | ||
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On Wed, 5 Feb 2025, Christoph M. Becker wrote:
> There is some discussion on a recent bug report[1] about
> filter_input() and related functionality. The bug report had been
> closed, because this functionality has already been added to the
> general deprecation RFC for PHP 8.5[2]. Then the OP raised a point
> regarding the usefulness of filter_input() to get at the original
> input, to avoid working with possibly modified superglobals.
>
> In my opinion, this topic should be discussed here, and not in a bug
> report. So, has anybody thoughts about the filter_input()
> deprecation?
I don't think they need to be deprecated, just because it is
"confusing". They were added specifically so that you could operate on
the original raw data.
cheers,
Derick