Re: behavior of translating dot in the query variable name into underscore character

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net> wrote: >> For BC reasons there is no way we can simply remove it. Old code might >> rely on it without relying on register_globals. > Although we could assign both, but I guess that would eat more memory > that it might actually benefit. Would it be possible to assign it as a reference and change the reference on the first write (similar to copy-on-write)? In that case I'd suggest doing something similar to: * Assign all variables to their provided name * Assign a reference as the "cleaned" version of their name if there isn't already an existing version of the clean name in the map Quite a few services use "." in their query string variables (such as Solr, for one), and the mangling of the query string names requires you to parse the query string yourself if you want to write a front end service accepting the same kind of API. -- Mats Lindh