Re: Before March 1st aka PHP 5.1 beta
| From: | Andi Gutmans | Date: | Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:44:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Before March 1st aka PHP 5.1 beta | ||
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At 03:26 PM 2/17/2005 -0500, Daniel Convissor wrote:
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:21:45PM -0800, Andi Gutmans wrote: Yeah I realize it's different but my idea was that if you have something like: filter_get(POST, "foo", FILTER_NUMBER) the semantics of this or some other function could be: if (isset($_POST["foo"]) && is_number(..... I think in most cases that would do and doesn't require to add/change opcodes and language constructs... Yeah, but... what if one wants to call it on a variable that's not part of the superglobals? Plus that construct doesn't provide a way to set the default value for the particular variable at hand.Well the API could allow the option to provide a default value if the data doesn't match the input. That's why I used the word "could" because the API for the input filtering hasn't been finalized. Andi