Why would i do this long coding in the second page "script.php" the variables values is already available in "script.php" when i do a post or get, if i use $_POST or $_GET to define a variable already available, that seems like a lot of extra coding for no reason. "Al" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Piet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi > > > > I am trying to find examples of how and where to use $_POST, $_GET etc. I > > searched a lot of places, but cant seem to find decent examples or a > > tutorial or something. > > $_POST and $_GET are associative arrays containing the form data sent by a > user to a page. Whether your user's submitted form data is in $_POST or > $_GET depends on what method attribute you've specified in the <form> tag in > your HTML code. Take a look at the following HTML example: > > <form method="get" action="script.php"> > <input type="text" name="firstName"> > <input type="text" name="lastName"> > <input type="submit"> > </form> > > Now in the file script.php you can access the submitted form values in the > $_GET array, using the form field names as array keys. e.g: > > <?php > $firstName = $_GET['firstName']; > $lastName = $_GET['lastName']; > echo 'The user submitted the name'.$firstName.' '.$lastName; > ?> > > If you had set the <form method="post"> in your HTML, then you could have > accessed the form values from the $_POST array within PHP. > > Hope that helps, > > Al
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