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.first_name" type="text">

get converted to an underscore when populated into $_POST. Presumably
this is a throwback to register_globals, 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_globals 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]

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

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

<input name="person.first_name" type="text">

get converted to an underscore when populated into $_POST. Presumably
this is a throwback to register_globals, 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_globals 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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