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Handling Remote Variables with Periods in Their Names in PHP

InfinityCoder November 29, 2016

You want to process a variable with a period in its name, but when a form is submitted, you can’t find the variable in $_GET or $_POST.

Replace the period in the variable’s name with an underscore. For example, if you have a form input element named hot.dog, you access it inside PHP as the variable $_GET[‘hot_dog’] or $_POST[‘hot_dog’].

During PHP’s pimply adolescence when register_globals was on by default, a form variable named hot.dog couldn’t become $hot.dog—periods aren’t allowed in variable names.

To work around that, the . was changed to _. While $_GET[‘hot.dog’] and $_POST[‘hot.dog’] don’t have this problem, the translation still happens for legacy and consistency reasons, no matter your register_globals setting.
You usually run into this translation when there’s an element of type image in a form that’s used to submit the form.

For example, a form element such as <input type=”image” name=”locations” src=”locations.gif” />, when clicked, submits the form.
The x and y coordinates of the click are submitted as locations.x and locations.y.
So in PHP, to find where a user clicked, you need to check $_POST[‘locations_x’] and $_POST[‘locations_y’].

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