Posted by ZeldorBlat on 11/18/05 04:52

>From my understanding the variables are passed along from a form depending on
>the "method" in your HTML code. If you use the "GET" method, the form adds the
>variable to the URL (e.g. http://www.domain.com/phpscript?var1=1+var2=2 ) and
>would access them in PHP with the $_GET variables.

Yes.

>If the form uses the "POST" method though, the variable are passed along more
>transparently, so you don't see them on the URL, and can get the using the
>$_POST variables.

Also true. It's also worth noting that this is no way makes POST more
secure than GET.

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