Handling input with the Zend Framework (Post,get,etc)

Question

im re-factoring php on zend code and all the code is full of $_GET[\"this\"] and $_POST[\"that\"]. I have always used the more phpish $this->_

Answer 1

not directly related to the topic, but to insure that you get an number in your input, one could also use $var+0 (however if $var is a float it stays a float) you may use in most cases $id = $this->_request->getQuery('id')+0;