Posted by Chung Leong on 12/10/05 03:44

Justin Koivisto wrote:
> Chung Leong wrote:
> > Malcolm Dew-Jones wrote:
> >
> >>Justin Koivisto (justin@koivi.com) wrote:
> >>
> >>: Kim André Akerø wrote:
> >>: >
> >>: > You can safely use "_" (underscore) instead. If you need to use it in a
> >>: > query string or form field, use $_POST, $_GET or $_REQUEST.
> >>
> >>: - characters in those arrays are replaced by _ automagically...
> >>
> >>There must be a config setting to do that, cause I have never observed
> >>that behaviour. The following uses - in the html parameter names.
> >
> >
> > I would have sworn to god that that's how it work, at least in the case
> > of register_globals = 1 and extract(). Yet that's not the behavior when
> > I tried. Dashes remain dashes in $_GET and the variable isn't set.
> > Weird...
>
> Good, I'm not completely loosing it them... ;)
>
> --
> Justin Koivisto, ZCE - justin@koivi.com
> http://koivi.com

Aha, now I remember! It's the period/fullstop that gets automatically
replaced by an underscore, not the dash.

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