Re: New globals for PUT and DELETE

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 6:50 AM, Chris Wright <cw@daverandom.com> wrote: > On 14 October 2014 14:46, Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > ...but is also the wrong solution. It's not scalable, How is it not scalable, exactly? It's just a couple aliases. > and the only > sensible way to implement them would be as aliases of $_POST, because > they would contain the same data. How does this fundamentally differ > from $_BODY (or whatever)? > It's not supposed to functionally differ. It's supposed to create some better consistency and make it easier for devs to differentiate between different REST methods when retrieving data. If REQUEST_METHOD is PUT, then I can set the parsed params to the value of $_PUT. The aliases match the methods used, making the code that much more readable and scalable. --Kris