[development] Question regarding the edit array

[Rob Thorne]

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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