note 95448 added to function.parse-str

Re: converting periods to underscores (julien 22-Jun-2009) (Also mentioned here by kermodebear 08-Aug-2007, Anon 17-Jun-2004, and surely in countless other places) This is probably a holdover from the days of register_globals, may they never haunt us again. A period is not allowed in a variable name, so what happened then was they were converted to underscores: "foo.bar=baz" would result in $foo_bar == "baz". It's most noticeable with image submit buttons. An image button named "foo" will create "foo.x" and "foo.y" (the X,Y coordinates of the mouse click on the image) which PHP translates to foo_x and foo_y. Perhaps there will be an INI setting in the future to disable this annoying behavior? ---- Server IP: 64.71.164.2 Probable Submitter: 75.172.105.165 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-str.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/95448 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95448/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95448/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95448/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95448/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95448/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95448/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95448 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/95448 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php