Re: PHP 5.1

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Derick Rethans wrote: > > Well, people turn on safe mode just because the name implies that things > > are safe too - which is wrong. I agree with Ilia, we should not mangle > > request data by default. It's fine to provide filter functions but the > > normal post/get/cookie data should be normally available through GET and > > POST - this is starting to look like another magic_quotes. A bad thing! > > You guys can write your own implementation and put it in PECL alongside > the one I am putting in there and we can decide if any of them should be > bundled by default. Perhaps none of them should, but like it or not, > people want to filter at this level and the extension to satisfy this > need will be available to them in PECL. Yes, there should be an extension that implements the filter functions - but the normal data should still be available like it is in PHP 4.3 and PHP 5.0. Adding an ext for those filters is a good thing, mangling request data isn't (see the magic_quotes_gpc mess). Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org