Re: AW: [PHP] how can I CALL a PHP script from different TEXT LINKS with differentPARAMETERS?

From: Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:47:13 +0000
Subject: Re: AW: [PHP] how can I CALL a PHP script from different TEXT LINKS with differentPARAMETERS?
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That's right Curt, this is the reason I characterised sending parameters via url not safe! But in case of selecting data, I think there is no problem to send data via url, right? anyway, I found more simple using POST in any case because I have already used that and works, so I prefer POST... Thanks! Curt Zirzow wrote: > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 04:12:05PM +1300, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: >>xkorakidis wrote: >>>Webmaster, thanks very much but I think it would be safer to do that by >>>post, not by get. Furthermore, if I use indivudual files >>The difference between POST and GET lies in the semantics -- POST >>represents something changing on the server, e.g. updating a database >>field, and allows the browser to warn the user if they try to refresh. >>GET represents nothing of importance changing on the server, e.g. >>performing a search on the database, and can safely be repeated. > > Another good reason to use POST to modify data, consider the link: > > http://example.com/posts.php?postid=1&action=delete > > If googlebot comes across your page containing a list of all your > posts, with a link like that, you just might wake up one morning > wondering why all your posts are gone. > > Curt.

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