On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Glob Design Info <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > One other thing I noted in the FAQ was this: > > "Dots in incoming variable names > Typically, PHP does not alter the names of variables when they are passed > into a script. However, it should be noted that the dot (period, full stop) > is not a valid character in a PHP variable name. For the reason, look at it: > > <?php > $varname.ext; /* invalid variable name */ > > ?> > Now, what the parser sees is a variable named $varname, followed by the > string concatenation operator, followed by the barestring (i.e. unquoted > string which doesn't match any known key or reserved words) 'ext'. > Obviously, this doesn't have the intended result. > For this reason, it is important to note that PHP will automatically > replace any dots in incoming variable names with underscores." > > I should note my user name in this case *is* an email address, however the > dots in that address are *not* being converted to underscores as mentioned > (at least not visibly). > > > it's says variable NAMES not variable contents
