Dot in POST parameter name gets converted to "_"

[Jeremy]

I've noticed that a dot in a POST parameter name - i.e.

<input name="person.fi rst_name" type="text">

get converted to an underscore when populated into $_POST. Presumably
this is a throwback to register_global s, as the programmer would not be
able to access the variables unless the dots were stripped (since dots
are concatenation in PHP). However, since register_global s is pretty
much never used, I thought there might be a way to turn this off via
php.ini.

Prepending code to re-parse the postdata would solve the problem, but it
seems lame to parse the postdata twice.

Thanks,
Jeremy

[Andy Hassall]

Re: Dot in POST parameter name gets converted to &quot;_&quot ;

On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:34:07 -0700, Jeremy <jeremy@pinacol .comwrote:

>I've noticed that a dot in a POST parameter name - i.e.
>
><input name="person.fi rst_name" type="text">
>
>get converted to an underscore when populated into $_POST. Presumably
>this is a throwback to register_global s, as the programmer would not be
>able to access the variables unless the dots were stripped (since dots
>are concatenation in PHP). However, since register_global s is pretty
>much never used, I thought there might be a way to turn this off via
>php.ini.

There isn't.

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