dot characters, extensions and PHP
Keith Grennan
keith at sxip.com
Tue Aug 1 21:33:35 UTC 2006
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 06:17:34PM +0100, Martin Atkins wrote:
> 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. :)
Good one!
OpenID 2.0 will support POST too, so you might need to decode
application/x-www-form-urlencoded POST data as well. Yuck.
> 80% of the time I spend writing PHP code seems to be spent
> re-implementing their features so that they actually work properly.
Heh. Yup, I have a real love-hate relationship with PHP. I find the
more I use it the more I like it though... not sure why...
Cheers,
Keith
>
> </rant>
>
>
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