Re: New globals for PUT and DELETE

Alain Williams wrote (on 14/10/2014):

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 01:54:55PM +0100, Andrea Faulds wrote:

On 14 Oct 2014, at 13:47, Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey guys, Does anybody know why we have $_GET and $_POST, but not $_PUT and $_DELETE? As far as I can tell, the only way to get these out currently is to parse their values by reading the incoming stream directly. Is there a reason why we don't want this or is it just that nobody has actually written it yet?

$_GET and $_POST are really misnomers. $_GET is query string parameters, $_POST is request body data. We should just put the request bodies for all requests, not just POST, into $_POST.

Unless I have misunderstood what you are saying ... as a developer I do want to know the difference between fields in a POST form and query items on the URL. I will sometimes use them together, eg:

     <form action="?context=something" method="post" >
     ...

and specifically check $_GET['context'] - there might be a $_POST['context'] but that is treated completely differently.

You have misunderstood: the request body is the data sent with the HTTP request, separate from the URL.