What is the difference of getting params from $_GET or from request object?

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As the topic why should i use one method above the other? I mean every get param (coming from urls also in the path format) is accesible from $_GET so why do i need the CHttpRequest::getParam method?

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Convention?

In any framework in php you can access directly $_GET.

But shall make a vow to never access this way, just because php let you do this.

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getParam() has the benefit to allow you specify a default value if the specified GET variable doesn't exist. As a result, you can write:

$id=Yii::app()->request->getParam('id',0);

instead of

$id=isset($_GET['id']) ? $_GET['id'] : 0;

This is the only difference.

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Hi,

It seems that Yii::app()->request->getParam("user['name']","");

will always return null even though $_POST['user']['name'] is not null

Is there a way to get this working?

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Hi,

It seems that Yii::app()->request->getParam("user['name']","");

will always return null even though $_POST['user']['name'] is not null

Is there a way to get this working?

maybe getParam not work with post variables square bracket notation?
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Yeah, this is not supported currently. Could you please submit a ticket for this? Thanks.

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Yeah, this is not supported currently. Could you please submit a ticket for this? Thanks.
done thanks
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Thanks :)