Richard, AFAIK, even in Drupal 4.7, what you're proposing would not have worked correctly. In 4.7, a new Forms API was introduced, which does pretty much all the access to $_REQUEST for you in a safer way. Your best start is to go to api.drupal.org and read the 5.1 specific page on Forms, including the tutorial on Forms API. It's more than I can explain in this post, and the docs are pretty useful. Cheers, Rob Rob Thorne Torenware Networks Richard Morse wrote:
Hi! In Drupal 4.7.x, form items were placed into an 'edit' array, so that if you wanted to get at items, you could do $_REQUEST['edit']['field_name']. In 5.x this has changed. Was there discussion about this somewhere? I can't find anything in the mailing list archives, or in the forums. (This might be because searches about 'edit', 'array', and '$_REQUEST' are pretty much worthless...).
I ask because it seems like it could be a problem -- suppose your form redefines 'q', (or 'sort', or 'order', or 'destination') for its own purposes; if I'm using GET queries, this could become a huge issue...
Thanks, Ricky
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