Re: Re: Best way to test for form submission?

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 02:53:56PM +0100, Stuart wrote: > 2009/8/28 Adam Jimerson <vendion@charter.net>: > > On 08/27/2009 11:09 PM, Adam Jimerson wrote: > >> This question might give away the fact that I am a php noob, but I am > >> looking for the best way to test for form submission in PHP.  I know in > >> Perl this can be done with > >> > >> if (param) > >> > >> but I don't know if that will work with PHP.  I have read the Learning > >> PHP 5 book and the only thing that was mentioned in the book was the use > >> of something like this > >> > >> print "<p>Hello ".$_POST['username']."</p>"; > > > > Sorry copied and pasted the wrong line (long day) > > > > if (array_key_exists('username',$_POST)) > >> > >> I'm sure that this is not the best/recommended way to do this but I'm > >> hoping someone here will point me in the right direction. > > Two options... > > 1) if (isset($_POST['username'])) // Specific to any given form > > 2) if (count($_POST) > 0) // Just tests whether any data was POSTed FWIW, the CodeIgniter framework uses this latter method internally. Paul -- Paul M. Foster