I thought I just did a comment and suggested that it is a lame solution
to use $_REQUEST plus I did not know witch of the two method (POST or
GET) would be appropriate so I picked up the lame way :-) .
mike wrote:
On 8/24/07, Goltsios Theodore <tgol@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
the posted or got option buy using the $_REQUEST array ($_GET and $_POST are
included in that like a less lame solution). Let's say you have a
Please do not encourage the use of $_REQUEST.
You might as well just tell people to enable register_globals again.
Use $_GET, $_POST, $_SESSION, $_COOKIE, $_SERVER, etc. for the
appropriate source of data. $_REQUEST is laziness and introduces most
of the same issues that was the reasoning behind disabling
register_globals to begin with.
(As for dropdowns, that's just an in-browser method of collecting data
and sending the key/value pairs in POST or GET... IMHO the HTML
portion should already be known before someone steps into the realm of
PHP and server-side programming)
- mike
