OK. Thank you Jim/Nathan. Ashim : ) On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Nathan Rixham <nrixham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. >> > > I noticed you've already received one response, so here's some more > background info. > > It's using $_GET and $_POST in the same script, not HTTP GET and HTTP POST. > $_GET in PHP correlates to the query string parameters in the URL requested, > $_POST in PHP correlates to form data which is POSTed to the server inside a > message, with the type application/x-www-form-urlencoded. > > One could say that $_GET and $_POST are named misleadingly, and that infact > what you have is $_PARSED_QUERY_STRING_FROM_URL and $_POST_DATA_MAYBE . > > The two are quite separate and can both be used at the same time. > > HTML forms allow a method to be set, GET or POST, if GET then the form is > treated like an URL construction template, if POST then it's treated like a > message body construction template. > > It's worth reading up on both HTTP and HTML Forms when using PHP, since PHP > is a "Pre Hypertext Processor" and HTTP is the Hypertext transfer protocol, > and HTML is the Hypertext markup language :) > > Best, > > Nathan >
