Re: Prefixing names of new filter functions with filter_

Hello, On 9/14/06, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Dan Scott wrote: So I'm throwing that against the wall to see if anything sticks. If there is agreement to the renaming, I'm pretty sure I can whip up a patch for the extension / unit tests / docs to get things back in sync. I think we should change some of the names as well, but we need to make sure that the functions that are used often have short names. Besides that, we need to change the way how input_get_args uses non-request data. Instead of using the INPUT_DATA pseudo input type we should create a filter_data_* type of function that allows you to specify the information on how to filter data from an array.

I did not like the idea to add another function only to parse custom data. Using INPUT_DATA, it is consistent with the other input type and allow to easily filter command line arguments (from a argv parser for example). --Pierre