Re: [Discussion] Dots and spaces in GPC variable names

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 5:56 AM, Andrey Andreev <narf@devilix.net> wrote: > With parse_str() usage without a second parameter being deprecated, I > was looking to possibly drop the behavior where it replaces spaces and > dots with underscores in the result array, and ... As it often turns > out - it's not that simple, because it re-uses the code that handles > GPC vars. > > I didn't even know this mangling happened with GPC vars. I can only > assume that's legacy from the the register_global days, as I certainly > don't see a reason for it now. Am I missing something? > > And more importantly, can we change that? It's a significant BC break, > yes, but the current behavior is horribly broken IMO. > BC breaking the default handling of GPCSE vars aside, I'd be 100% in favor of either adding a flag param to parse_str() for this. parse_str($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], $_GET, PARSE_STR_NOMANGLE); -Sara ((Or add a new function which doesn't mangle and returns by value rather than by ref because *ugh* at that by-ref semantic))