On Thu, April 19, 2007 2:50 am, Justin Frim wrote:
...
> limitations. Form field names must not be permitted to contain
> periods,
> spaces, or opening square brackets. Those all get converted to
> underscores before the keys are created to the $_POST[] array, with no
> way to determine the original name. And if the form field name has
> both
> opening and closing square brackets respectively, weird funky
> sub-arraying occurs. Anyhow, I'd also need to do a workaround to this
Don't be calling my form arrays weird funky!
That's one of PHP's greatest features!
:-)
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Also, I'll point out that it's only sheer coincidence any ordering you
are seeing in $_POST and the POST body. Well, not coincidence, but
it's NOT a documented feature.
The HTML/HTTP don't even have to provide the INPUTs in order, even
though in practice, they all do that.
Relying on that order is probably a Bad Idea all around.
And, to make you even more miserable, it's not just . and [ that get
converted to _ by PHP for the keys...
Because of the history of PHP and register_globals, *ANY* character
not fitting this PCRE pattern: [a-z_][a-z0-9_]* is gonna get
converted...
type="image" name="image" -> image_x
name="image.x" -> image_x
name="image_x" -> image_x
name="image[x" -> image_x
name="image=x" -> image_x
name="image{x" -> image_x
name="image,x" -> image_x
Of course, those may not be valid HTML names according to one or more
HTTP specs you care to pull out...
But that don't mean somebody somewhere isn't using them successfully
and won't blame you when it "breaks" :-(
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