On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:08 PM, mike <mike503@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Then code for it :P I understand the idea, I don't see the need to
> create a dedicated construct in PHP for it. Part of PHP's power to me
> was finally getting away from the lazy ASP (VB-based)
> Request.Value('foo') or whatever it was and not able to identify if it
> was post, get, etc and making the coder define exactly what source of
> data he's getting it from.
What your saying makes sense, Mike, and is the preferred method of
doing things.... however, that doesn't invalidate the reason $_REQUEST
exists. Your initial email asked why it was there, not why some
people consider themselves programmers and rely on cheats and hacks
like that. ;-P
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