Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] PHP form name transliteration question

[Peter H. <ph...@ma...>]

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On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 02:08:41PM -0600, Sarah Gray wrote:
> Does anyone know why it is that a form element named using dots is 
> transliterated to a form element named using underscores when it is 
> posted using PHP [4.4.4 and 4.3.2, at least]? It's as if php runs a 
> pre-filter preg_replace on the names of input fields before outputting 
> them to the $_POST array. 

That's pretty much exactly what happens. Because of register_globals,
the keys have to be valid variable names. $name.with.dots is invalid,
but $name_with_dots is OK. This alteration was carried over into $_POST
and the others.


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