Re: Using $_GET for POST

This page can help you understand them better: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.superglobals.php Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com Edward Diener wrote: > In handling an HTTP POST request I came across some PHP code, which I > need to modify for my own purposes, which has code like this: > > if ( ! (isset($_GET['xxxxx']) && $_GET['xxxxx'] == 20) ) > { > // Do something by returning an error > } > > Can this ever be correct when the form looks like: > > <form ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" ACTION="" > METHOD="POST"> > <input NAME="SomeFile" TYPE="file"> > <input VALUE="submit" TYPE="submit"></form> > > ? > > Is the $_GET possibly being used to check for an 'xxxxx' parameter > being passed in the query part of the URL ? > > I am fairly new to PHP so I am trying to understand how $_GET differs > from $_POST. Thanks ! >