POST or get both don't work I guess because of the < > characters ________________________________ From: Antonio CS [mailto:antoniocs@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 12:59 PM To: Harpreet Subject: Re: read an xml string from a form field Why not use $_POST? On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Harpreet <harpreet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I have a simple form with a textarea to receive an xml string. My xml string is something like this: <Filter_1> <Module_0></Module_0> </Filter_1> How can I request the value in my php page $_GET wont work.