Re: New globals for PUT and DELETE

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Mike Dugan <mike@mjdugan.com> wrote: > > On October 14, 2014 at 9:31:15 AM, Andrea Faulds (ajf@ajf.me) wrote: > > > On 14 Oct 2014, at 14:27, Kristopher <kristopherwilson@gmail.com> wrote: > > > $_HTTP_REQUEST_BODY and $_HTTP_QUERY_STRING for nostalgia's sake. > > Ew, non-superglobals. > > But $_REQUEST_BODY and $_QUERY_STRING are a bit lengthy. Perhaps $_QUERY > (for $_GET) and $_BODY (for $_POST)? Then the variable set finally makes > sense, but isn’t too long: > > * $_QUERY - query string parameters > * $_BODY - request body parameters > * $_REQUEST - query string and request body parameters > > Makes more sense than $_GET and $_POST. > > Any objections? > > -- > Andrea Faulds > http://ajf.me/ > > > +1 for this. This would hopefully also eliminate the confusion for new > developers (or not-so-new developers) who don’t quite understand that $_GET > and $_POST don’t strictly relate to their HTTP verbs of the same name. > > -- > > Mike Dugan > > mike@mjdugan.com > That could work, though the BC breakage will be extreme. I'm not sure if that's worth it even in a major version increment. On the other hand, making $_PUT and $_DELETE available wouldn't break anything and wouldn't require re-training for devs. --Kris