dot characters, extensions and PHP

[Martin Atkins]

Keith Grennan wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Working with OpenID in PHP, I noticed that PHP replaces any dots
> in incoming variable names to underscores.
> 
> http://ca.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php#language.variables.external.dot-in-names
> 

I worked around this in my PHP app by implementing the query string 
decoding myself. :)

80% of the time I spend writing PHP code seems to be spent 
re-implementing their features so that they actually work properly.

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