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

On 2 October 2013 07:59, Michael Wallner <mike@php.net> wrote: > I propose to phase out $_GET and name it $_QUERY and > I propose to phase out $_POST and name it $_FORM I have to say I'm against this aspect of the proposal. While the names may not be 100% accurate, _most_ people are used to their behaviour. You certainly won't be able to remove $_GET / $_POST (implied by "phase out") in any 5.x release, it's just too big of a BC break. > 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). (*) This makes more sense, HTTP/1.1 spec states all methods (except TRACE) are allowed a body. This is where it could get pretty confusing though, since a GET is allowed a body that could populate $_POST. I still don't think it justifies the name change though. On 2 October 2013 08:31, Michael Wallner <mike@php.net> wrote: > > I had it, but I'm not sure $_BODY fits either, because it should be an > array. Currently only form data fits the purpose of de-serialisation > of a request body. > Not so sure about that. I don't think there is a rule that says a body _has_ to be in query string name=value format, or that multipart elements _have_ to have a name=something attribute. I could quite easily imagine PUT requests containing a textual body without an associated field name (the URI would contain the field name). (correct me if I'm wrong)