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Doc Bug #580 doc doesn't explain how to access variable with "." in its name
Submitted: 1998-07-25 05:26 UTC Modified: 1998-07-25 14:49 UTC
From: mnc at diana dot law dot yale dot edu Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 3.0.1 OS: linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [1998-07-25 05:26 UTC] mnc at diana dot law dot yale dot edu 
When a user clicks on a form element TYPE=IMAGE, the server is sent two variables,
one with .x appended and one with .y appended. Are these turned into PHP globals
when the form is received? If so, how do I access them since they're not legal PHP
variable names? I read through the documentation and searched dejanews and altavista.
I can't believe I'm the first person to run into this. Probably I'm just being stupid.

miguel

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 [1998-07-25 14:49 UTC] jim 
PHP automatically converts periods into underscores in

GET, POST, and Cookie data.



A section explaining this has been added to the PHP3

manual (taken from the PHP/FI2 manual).
 
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