Re: HTTP supergloblas and request body/query (was: Parsing PUT data)

Hi, wouldn’t $_BODY be better - since it is the request body? $_FORM is imho not very clear, since you can send data to $_POST without using a form. -- Cheers Jannik Am Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2013 um 09:17 schrieb Alexey Zakhlestin: > > On 02.10.2013, at 10:59, Michael Wallner <mike@php.net (mailto:mike@php.net)> wrote: > > > Since ever people are confused by _GET and _POST superglobals, > > because, despite their name, they do not (really) depend on the > > request method. Therefor I propose to phase out $_GET and name it > > $_QUERY and I propose to phase out $_POST and name it $_FORM (I'm not > > 100% confident with the latter yet, though). > > > > Further, I propose to remove the POST method restriction for handling > > request bodies and solely rely on the content type to trigger the > > parser(s). (*) > > > > There are already parsers for application/x-www-form-urlencoded and > > multipart/form-data in the core. One could think of providing an API > > to add content type handlers from extensions, ext/json may be an > > example, like it is hacked into pecl_http-v2. > > > > Thoughts, objections, insults? > > > > (*) We'd probably have to revisit all *post* INI variables, though. > > So, that is not one, but three proposals: > > 1. _GET -> _QUERY, _POST -> _FORM > > I don't think this is really necessary. Names are there historically and changing them > will break a lot of stuff. > +0 on aliasing, and soft-deprecation (via documentation) though > > 2. ignore request-method, trigger body-processing solely on Content-type > > +1. makes sense > > 3. expose body-parsers via php-level API > > +1. Hell, yes! Something like +1000, actually ;) > > > > -- > Alexey Zakhlestin > CTO at Grids.by/you > https://github.com/indeyets > PGP key: http://indeyets.ru/alexey.zakhlestin.pgp.asc > >