Re: Re: Passing variables to a PHP script on clicking a hyperlink

Hi Here is my 2cents I will not use GET. If you want to pass a db name i would use POST. Because if you don't do something with the statusbar the the user can see the dbname if you use GET and i don't think that is a good thing. I'm working on an webbased app with a lot of db work and i learnt "Don't trust the user" not even if it is just the intranet. There my 2cents "Goltsios Theodore" <tgol@kinetix.gr> wrote in message news:46CE94DF.7050905@kinetix.gr... > > I thought I just did a comment and suggested that it is a lame solution > to use $_REQUEST plus I did not know witch of the two method (POST or > GET) would be appropriate so I picked up the lame way :-) . > > mike wrote: > > On 8/24/07, Goltsios Theodore <tgol@kinetix.gr> wrote: > > > >> the posted or got option buy using the $_REQUEST array ($_GET and $_POST are > >> included in that like a less lame solution). Let's say you have a > >> > > > > Please do not encourage the use of $_REQUEST. > > > > You might as well just tell people to enable register_globals again. > > > > Use $_GET, $_POST, $_SESSION, $_COOKIE, $_SERVER, etc. for the > > appropriate source of data. $_REQUEST is laziness and introduces most > > of the same issues that was the reasoning behind disabling > > register_globals to begin with. > > > > (As for dropdowns, that's just an in-browser method of collecting data > > and sending the key/value pairs in POST or GET... IMHO the HTML > > portion should already be known before someone steps into the realm of > > PHP and server-side programming) > > > > - mike > > > > >