Re: Where and how do i use $_post etc

"Piet" <pieterdt@telkomsa.net> wrote in message news:20031226092043.53949.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hi > > I am trying to find examples of how and where to use $_POST, $_GET etc. I > searched a lot of places, but cant seem to find decent examples or a > tutorial or something. $_POST and $_GET are associative arrays containing the form data sent by a user to a page. Whether your user's submitted form data is in $_POST or $_GET depends on what method attribute you've specified in the <form> tag in your HTML code. Take a look at the following HTML example: <form method="get" action="script.php"> <input type="text" name="firstName"> <input type="text" name="lastName"> <input type="submit"> </form> Now in the file script.php you can access the submitted form values in the $_GET array, using the form field names as array keys. e.g: <?php $firstName = $_GET['firstName']; $lastName = $_GET['lastName']; echo 'The user submitted the name'.$firstName.' '.$lastName; ?> If you had set the <form method="post"> in your HTML, then you could have accessed the form values from the $_POST array within PHP. Hope that helps, Al