Re[2]: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1

Hello Ilia, Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 7:04:24 PM, you wrote: IA> The end result is that we are punishing people who have already written IA> good code and continue to encourage people to write bad code by saying IA> "we'll take care of data filtering", which is sorta like safe_mode. +1 to this i think it's very bad idea to break backwards compatibility - it will make thousands of working systems non-operational (for example, if a hosting admin 'upgrades' php to the version which has input filtering) IA> I am by no means opposed to offering functions that can be used to IA> perform input data filtering to save the time of having to write your IA> own. But, I'd prefer to be able to easily access raw data. Perhaps IA> something like filter_restore_raw_data() function that would put the raw IA> data back into GET/POST/COOKIE super globals. i don't think it's a good idea either - all existing scripts would require adding filter_restore_raw_data() call. i think, it's better to do a filter call in quite opposite way: filter_data() function that would do filtering for superglobals; those who need it can call it manually -- Best regards, val mailto:val@vk.kiev.ua