Re: $_PARAMETERS Super Global Object

On Wed, February 22, 2012 8:57 am, Michael Morris wrote: > Before writing up a full RFC I want to put out a feeler on something. > Currently we have several input parameter objects, chief among them > $_GET, $_POST, $_REQUEST, $_SERVER (for the client HTTP headers). All > of them are arrays and legacy code sometimes writes to them. Locking > them as read only objects would cause a major BC break. > > What if instead we had an Object called $_PARAMETERS which holds the > read only copies of this data. In addition, this would be the first > superglobal object, able to perform some filtering of inputs. Basic > idea.. > > $_PARAMETERS > ->get > ->post > ->cookie > ->headers (The client http headers) > > All of these would be array objects, and all would be read only and > have these methods and properties > > ->filtered: Copy of the array according to the current set filters of > the object. > ->setFilters(): Sets the filters of the input, an array with constant > values for the allowed types. > > And I'll stop there. The basic idea, to add a read only input hive > with some basic object functionality for filtering. I can see how you would want this, but it seems to me that you can code this easily enough in PHP, with a singleton class with private read-only properties that initialize to the various $_XXX values, and a filter method that employs PHP FILTER. Personally, I think introducing a whole new feature to be maintained and documented to save defining a couple simple classes and a page of code is not a "win". -- brain cancer update: http://richardlynch.blogspot.com/search/label/brain%20tumor Donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=FS9NLTNEEKWBE