On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Shawn McKenzie wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >  i don't see a separate mailing list for documentation so is this
> > where i would point at oddities in the manual?  as in, here:
> >
> > http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php
> >
> > we read:
> >
> > "// Unavailable since PHP 6."
> >
> > that just looks weird, no?
> >
> > rday
>
> $HTTP_POST_VARS was the way to access post vars in PHP before 4.1.
> Since then it is $_POST, and $HTTP_POST_VARS is only available if
> you set register_long_arrays = On in php.ini.  As of PHP 6
> $HTTP_POST_VARS will not be available, you must use $_POST.

  i'm not sure that addresses my post -- it doesn't make grammatical
sense to state that something is unavailable "since" something that is
yet to be officially released.

rday
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