On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 09:57 -0500, Michael Morris wrote:
> Before writing up a full RFC I want to put out a feeler on something.
> Currently we have several input parameter objects, chief among them
> $_GET, $_POST, $_REQUEST, $_SERVER (for the client HTTP headers). All
> of them are arrays and legacy code sometimes writes to them. Locking
> them as read only objects would cause a major BC break.
>
> What if instead we had an Object called $_PARAMETERS which holds the
> read only copies of this data. In addition, this would be the first
> superglobal object, able to perform some filtering of inputs. Basic
> idea..
What's the benefit over filter_input()?
johannes