[TYPO3-dev] Inconsistent naming of methods to fetch GET/POST vars all over T3

[Steffen Müller]

Hi.

On 05.02.2009 09:36 Franz Koch wrote:
> 
> for me it's quite confusing to find the correct syntax for retrieving
> GET/POST values in various situations. For "gettext" values in TS you
> need to use "GPvar:stuff" and for TS conditions it's just "GP" or
> "_GET"/"_POST" (which are not documented) to retrieve a value from
> $_GET/$_POST.

_GET / _POST in TS conditions? IMHO only GP does work here.

> 
> Even more confusing is, that t3lib_div::GPvar is now deprecated in TYPO3
> 4.3 and t3lib_div::_GP should be used, but the gettext syntax is still
> "GPvar".
> 

Easy to fix. I added a bug with patch. See:
http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=10357

Could you please add some text for TSref getText to the bug comments? I
do not have the time atm.

> 
> How do you feel about that? Should this be cleaned up, aliases with
> consistent naming be provided and old names be defined as deprecated?
> 

PHP throws a warning if things are deprecated, but TS?

-- 
cheers,
Steffen

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