note 79681 deleted from reserved.variables by felipe

Note Submitter: email at martinclewett dot com 

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$_POST[...] does not support dots or spaces in the HTML form element names; replacing them with underscores.  Strictly speaking spaces break W3 but not dots. Therefore I have written this workaround.  It uses the $GLOBALS['HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA'] variable and converts it using urldecode(...).  The function outputs an associative array that unlike $_POST can handle dots and spaces.  You will need to set always_populate_raw_post_data to on in your php.ini file.
  
<?php
function get_posted_data_from_raw(){
   //For this to work the always_populate_raw_post_data configuration directive in php.ini need to be on
   if(isset($GLOBALS['HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA'])){
       $temparr1 = split('&',$GLOBALS['HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA']);
       foreach($temparr1 as $tempstr1){
           $temparr2 = split('=',$tempstr1);
           $post[urldecode($temparr2[0])] = urldecode($temparr2[1]);
       }
       return $post;
   }
}
?>

Martin