If your form is well designed, there should NOT be another POST variable
named "ID" or "id" used for a different purpose.
Your form data validation routine will examine the 2-uple ( action, id), not
"id" alone. therefore no problem.
In many cases I find it convenient to design a page so that it can be called
indifferently by POST or GET.
Just my 2 Belgian francs.
Ignatius
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mikael Grön" <emgee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: converting scripts for register_globals=Off
Since I have a thing for using one file for all things in i.e. an admin
script, I use POST and GET variables at the same time. Getting them
mixed up is extremely hazardous.. I do stuff like:
<a href="admin.php?action=delete&id=2">Delete post</a>
which leads to the section of the admin script;
<?php
if ($_GET['action'] == "delete" && $_GET['id']) {
// lots of PHP doing lots of stuff
} else {
// the link
}
?>
Now, if there's a POST variable named ID containing an INT matching the
database, and I use $_REQUEST instead of $_GET, I'm in trouble!
Mike
On Apr 29, 2004, at 11:00, Ignatius Reilly wrote:
> even better:
> $_REQUEST['variable_name']
>
> so that you don't have to bother checking both depending on whether
> your
> form was GETted or POSTed.
>
> _________________________
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mikael Grön" <emgee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Kim Jacobs (Crooks) - Mweb" <KJacobs@xxxxxxxx>;
> <php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 11:54 AM
> Subject: Re: converting scripts for register_globals=Off
>
>
> What register_globals does (Please correct me if I'm wrong) is convert
> i.e. $_POST['variable_name'], $_GET['variable_name'] and so on to
> $variable_name. which isn't very good from my point of view.
>
> I suggest you make sure you use $_GET['your_variable'] when ever you're
> fetching a GET variable, $_POST['var'] for all post variables and so
> on, instead of what you're doing now.
> This works just fine with register_globals = On as well, so I always
> use it... to be safe..
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Apr 29, 2004, at 10:40, Kim Jacobs (Crooks) - Mweb wrote:
>
>> if any of you could help me out, I would greatly appreciate it... I am
>> an absolute beginner to php (2 weeks now) and dont know what I dont
>> know...
>>
>> I have written some scripts to access my online SQL db and I've tested
>> the scripts on my machine with PHP 4.3.6 and register_globals = On
>> Now where I host my site, uses PHP 4.3.5 and has register_globals =
>> Off which means of course, that my scripts arent working, but I dont
>> know why....
>>
>> My question is, how do I convert my scripts so that they will work
>> please? I know that $id and $submit are two of the 'inputs' that it
>> doesnt like, but I dont know the rest
>>
>> Tx
>> K
>>
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