note 23308 added to language.variables.external

From: Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 10:10:01 +0000
Subject: note 23308 added to language.variables.external
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A dot in a POST(|GET?) variable will be converted to underscore! I.e. an input box named mail.address will be $_POST['mail_address']. So, if getting your variable names dynamically from somewhere (another variable / database), don't forget how to do search & replace: str_replace(".", "_", $varname) Alexandros Vellis -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+23308 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+23308 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+23308

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