Posted by Brent Baisley on 12/05/95 11:26

If you are going to be accepting data, and you don't care or are not
sure if it's going to be a GET or a POST, then use $_REQUEST, which
contains both $_GET and $_POST data.



On Sep 9, 2005, at 7:46 PM, bruce wrote:

> hi..
>
> quick question.. a basic link <a ref ="foo.php?a=1">blah</a> allows
> you to
> process the vars in foo.php using $_GET, easy/basic enough.
> however, if i
> have a form from cat.php that does a 'post' of the form information/
> input to
> the foo.php, i'm then going to have to either change the form to do
> a 'get'
> or else i'm going to have to do both a $_GET, and a $_POST within
> foo.php to
> access the vars from the pages that are interfacing with foo.php.
>
> is there an easier/cleaner/better approach??
>
> or do i really need/wind up doing something like
>
> if ($_GET['foo'])...
>
> if ($_POST['apple'])...
>
> and just have a mix of both methods within the code...
>
> thanks
>
> -bruce
> bedouglas@earthlink.net
>
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