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

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Oh yeah, forgot to start the holy war of CamelCase vs score_spacing..

> I don't know if .'s are valid in variable names.. ?.. I know its not
> encouraged..
>
>>From the manual:
>
> http://us3.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.php
>
> Basics
>
> Variables in PHP are represented by a dollar sign followed by the name =
of
> the variable. The variable name is case-sensitive.
>
> Variable names follow the same rules as other labels in PHP. A valid
> variable name starts with a letter or underscore, followed by any numbe=
r
> of letters, numbers, or underscores. As a regular expression, it would =
be
> expressed thus: '[a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*'
>
>     Note: For our purposes here, a letter is a-z, A-Z, and the ASCII
> characters from 127 through 255 (0x7f-0xff).
>
>
> Also worth noting:
>
> http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php-src/CODING_STANDARDS?view=3Dco
>
>
>
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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 outputtin=
g
>>> 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 $_POS=
T
>> and the others.
>>
>>
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