Re: using BOTH GET and POST in the same page.

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:30:56PM -0500, tedd wrote: > >At 11:58 PM -0500 2/13/11, Paul M Foster wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 02:25:45PM -0500, tedd wrote: > > > > > At 10:53 AM +0530 2/12/11, Ashim Kapoor wrote: > > > >Dear All, > > > > > > > >I am reading "PHP5 and MySQL Bible". Chapter 7 of the book says > >that PHP can > > > >use GET and POST in the SAME page! Also it says that we can use > the SAME > > > >variables in GET and POST variable sets and that conflict > >resolution is done > > > >by variable_order option in php.ini Can some one write a small > program to > > > >illustrate the previous ideas? It is not clear to me as to how > >to implement > > > >this. > > > > > > > >Many thanks, > > > >Ashim. > > > > > > Ashim: > > > > > > What others have not addressed is that the form used to send > > > variables will send only GET OR POST method variables, but not both > > > at the same time. > > > >-snip- > > > >It sounds like you're saying this isn't possible, yet it is. So what am > >I missing? Is there an error in my code? > > > >Paul > > > >-- > >Paul M. Foster > >http://noferblatz.com > > > Paul: > > What I am saying is your form is a POST-method-form and it will only > send variables via the POST method. If you change the form's method > to GET, then the variables from the form will be sent via the GET > method. > > Remember, there is ONLY ONE form being used per Submit action -- it > can either be a POST method or a GET method, but it can not be both. > > This does not mean that you can't send both POST and GET variables > together via the same Submit action, but it does mean that the *form* > will only send it's contents via one method or the other. > > Here's a demo: > > http://php1.net/c/post-get > > Please note that the POST method form will send only POST data and > the GET method form will send only GET data. However, you can force a > POST method *form* via the action attribute value to also include a > GET variable (see Submit POST w/GET) -- BUT -- that does not come > from the form's input but rather from the action attribute. Do you > see what I mean? > > The code is shown. Understood. It sounded like you were saying you could only get back POST or GET values from a page, which isn't true. The form itself, yes, can only have one or the other method attribute. > > Also, please note interaction between the GET/POST/REQUEST re the > variable 'alfa' and you will get an idea of why REQUEST may pose a > problem. This is why I don't use the REQUEST variable. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com