On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 10:42 PM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <ka...@php.net> wrote:

> Den tor. 5. jul. 2018 kl. 22.22 skrev Stanislav Malyshev <
> smalys...@gmail.com>:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > > After looking into this, I think that FILTER_SANITIZE_MAGIC_QUOTES may
> be a
> > > legitimate filter, which just has a bad name. Next to other filters
> that
> > > perform htmlspecialchars and urlencode, it makes sense that there is
> also a
> > > filter that performs addslashes. Maybe we should just rename this
> filter to
> > > something which is not tainted by the "magic quotes" terminology?
> >
> > Makes sense. There's nothing specially evil in addslashes if used in
> > appropriate context. Also, for those that are newer to PHP, "magic
> > quotes" means very little. So it's a bad name from various perspectives.
> > Having something like FILTER_SANITIZE_ADD_SLASHES would be fine.
>
> Thinking some more about it, I kinda agree with the sentiment and I
> think a rename is much better as it doesn't really hurt. We could add
> an alias constant instead and provoke an E_DEPRECATED if the old one
> is used (given we don't give the filter the same numeric value).
>

Sounds reasonable to me. My only question would be when we would start
emitting the deprecation notice. I'm not a fan of deprecating things in the
same release as the alternative is introduced, so I would suggest to add
the new alias in PHP 7.3 and perform the deprecation in PHP 7.4.

Nikita

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