Posted by Steve Belanger on 05/23/07 13:25

all super globals by default are being set to empty, like $_GET, $_POST,
$_COOKIE and so on.

you might want to use empty($_POST) instead. If that check ends up being
true, that means no POST data has been provided. False would mean you sent
data through $_POST.

hope this helps.



"kenoli" <kenoli.p@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a script that submits form data via a "post" method to another
> script. I have an href link in the destination script that links back
> to itself for processing form data on that page with some "get" data
> appended to the URL. I noticed that after clicking on that link and
> sending the action back to itself, a check of isset($_POST) returns
> true while displaying the content of $_POST displays an empty array.
> I had expected isset($_POST) to return false, thinking the script
> would unset the $_POST array when the <a> link sent it back to
> itself. Instead, it leaves $_POST set but empty.
>
> What is the convention here?
>
> --Kenoli
>

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