Posted by Andy Hassall on 06/03/07 22:57

On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:34:07 -0700, Jeremy <jeremy@pinacol.com> wrote:

>I've noticed that a dot in a POST parameter name - i.e.
>
><input name="person.first_name" type="text">
>
>get converted to an underscore when populated into $_POST. Presumably
>this is a throwback to register_globals, as the programmer would not be
>able to access the variables unless the dots were stripped (since dots
>are concatenation in PHP). However, since register_globals is pretty
>much never used, I thought there might be a way to turn this off via
>php.ini.

There isn't.

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