Re: mixing $_POST and $_GET vars

Request variables: $_REQUEST *Note: * Introduced in 4.1.0. There is no equivalent array in earlier versions. *Note: * Prior to PHP 4.3.0, $_FILES information was also included in $_REQUEST. An associative array consisting of the contents of $_GET, $_POST, and $_COOKIE. This is a 'superglobal', or automatic global, variable. This simply means that it is available in all scopes throughout a script. You don't need to do a *global $_REQUEST;* to access it within functions or methods. If the register_globals <http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.register-globals> directive is set, then these variables will also be made available in the global scope of the script; i.e., separate from the $_REQUEST array. For related information, see the security chapter titled Using Register Globals <http://us2.php.net/manual/en/security.globals.php>. These individual globals are not autoglobals. http://us2.php.net/reserved.variables -afan 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