From 8ca369a17fd16c9765258fb13d31bf0575bd0c95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jakub Vrana <vrana@php.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:58:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Dots and spaces become underscores (bug #48799)

git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@290816 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1
---
 language/variables.xml | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/language/variables.xml b/language/variables.xml
index d1b995190c..ddc8f27714 100644
--- a/language/variables.xml
+++ b/language/variables.xml
@@ -851,6 +851,14 @@ I am bar.
      </para>
     </note>
 
+    <note>
+     <para>
+      Dots and spaces in variable names are converted to undescores. For
+      example <literal>&lt;input name="a.b" /&gt;</literal> becomes
+      <literal>$_REQUEST["a_b"]</literal>.
+     </para>
+    </note>
+
     <para>
      As shown, before PHP 4.2.0 the default value for <link
      linkend="ini.register-globals">register_globals</link>