note 57497 deleted from reserved.variables by philip

Note Submitter: webadmin at wibn dot net ---- I like using the $_REQUEST variable because my scripts work as expected regardless of request method and I can set per-user default values with cookies or session variables. I was having problems because $_REQUEST was preferring cookie-method values over GET- and POST-method values. I have no access to php.ini on my hosted web page and, of course, ini_set("variables_order","ESCGP"); has no effect because $_REQUEST is created before my script starts. The following script fixed my problem: foreach (array("_GET","_POST") as $source) { foreach (${$source} as $idx => $value) { $_REQUEST[$idx]=$value; }; }; unset($source,$idx,$value); Simply fill the array() with the names of the arrays you want to load into $_REQUEST, in increasing order of preference.