[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #22325: Abstract GPCS away from the superglobals

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#22325: Abstract GPCS away from the superglobals
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 Reporter:  rmccue       |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  General      |     Version:
 Severity:  minor        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |
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Comment (by CaptainN):

 I don't think it was a dumb decision. I think magic quotes is confusing,
 not very secure in a broader sense, and teaches bad practice.

 I wasn't around WordPress at the time, but I'd guess the enforcement of
 magic quotes on the PHP superglobals was added to WordPress in response to
 the change in upstream default behavior by PHP - so it was probably more
 of an active change to default WP behavior than a change that happened
 through attrition. The result is the same either way, WordPress is left in
 a state where its behavior changes default PHP behavior to match legacy
 PHP behavior.

 Maybe it would have been better for PHP to create a different GPCS
 variable set or framework and deprecate the old one, instead of just
 changing the default behavior the way they did - that was pretty silly.

 It doesn't really matter now, it's great that WordPress is finally making
 an effort to match the default PHP behavior. :-)

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