Re: Let parse_str() parse more than max_input_vars args

From: Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:53:11 +0000
Subject: Re: Let parse_str() parse more than max_input_vars args
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On 14/03/12 20:42, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > It is somewhat unintuitive that parse_str() is subject to the > max_input_vars limitation and there are sites that use parse_str() to > parse things that aren't directly coming from user query args. > There arr two ways to solve this. We could add an optional max_vars arg > something along these lines: > > https://gist.github.com/2038870 > > The other way to solve this would be to make max_input_vars PHP_INI_ALL > and then just let people ini_set() their way around the limit. > > The one drawback with the optional arg approach is that since > parse_str() is a thin layer on top of the query string parser, the error > if you exceed the passed max_vars talks about the ini setting which in > this case wouldn't really be correct and fixing that would be complicated. > > -Rasmus Configuring it through ini_set would be a hack. +1 for doing it by a new str_parse() parameter. I'm not really keen of implementing that setting and restoring PG(max_input_vars), but as a fast fix, it's ok.

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