Also there can be a restrictive data limit on the size of a GET URL which doesn't apply to POST. Link is old but still generally accurate AFAIK: http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/638. To reply to Chenri, GET behaves the same as POST in that its data is just made up of whichever FORM is submitted. I think when you say "while get is like a global variable for the whole page, and doesn't require to make an object for a variable" you're talking about the "register globals" feature of PHP which is now disabled by default on any recent version of PHP (from v4.2.0 onwards I believe) for security reasons. See http://www.php.net/register_globals. Jeff Brownlee wrote: > > Different tools for different jobs. GET is useful if you want to be > able to copy a dynamic URL (ie, you want to email a friend a link to > your favorite book on amazon.com), whereas POST is better used for > pushing data you don't want showing up in querystrings. > > --- > Hi all, > > can any one clear my doubt? > > Why we use Get method when we can achieve that with post method. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.3 - Release Date: 31/01/2005 PHP Data object relational mapping generator - http://www.meta-language.net/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-objects/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: php-objects-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
