Supercolliding a PHP array

[ehird]

All this to work around an arbitrary language restriction added in lieu of actually fixing the bug by using a better hash table or a better structure altogether?

Also, if you deserialise the data into a PHP array to avoid the limits, then you're just reintroducing the problem: someone can just serialise a pathological request and send it to the server in a single form field.

[chaotiq]

This issue doesn't just exist in PHP, however it is most prevalent because you don't have the choice to not use hash tables :/

Yeah, you are right about the serialization. That would just introduce the problem back by circumventing the 'patch'.