If your question is a matter of "Is this a good programming practice" then I think it's ok. There are times when something like this could be really useful.
Should people get into the practice of using this kind of thing? I think it really depends on the circumstances and there's definitely times when it would just make things more confusing which is bad programming practice in general. So unless there's a web server that looks for POST data and ignores any GET data sent (which I've never heard of but I'm guessing that someone's managed to create a web server at one point that did this.. on purpose or not), then I think this is an ok technique if there's not a simpler one that does the same thing. Simplicity is really the key, but it's nice to know that you CAN use GET and POST together if you want/need to. Just as long as it's not complicating the situation for no reason. -TG = = = Original message = = = Browser history: I do not want it to contain any URIs to files which require some sort of id variable passed. Example: 1. http://www.entity.org/edit.php (should produce an error or redirect to entity list) 2. http://www.entity.org/edit.php?id=1 (should display editing interface) Now I really do not like to use redirects in case of errors. So I could constantly use (2) second form of URI, even in POST requests. But then, if I already have "id" in $_GET, why the redundancy of sending another "id" to $_POST? B. On Tuesday 11 January 2005 09:48, you wrote: > Is it just me or ... why on earth would you want to populate both GET and > POST arrays through this obscure way of coding ? > > If you really have a form where you dont have a clue wether your data comes > from GET or POST, it should be way less effort to copy one array to another > or have a lookup function to return the given value. > > / Lars > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bostjan Skufca @ domenca.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 5:42 PM > Subject: [PHP] $_GET & $_POST simultaneously > > > Hello, > > > > If I create form like this > > <form name="form" action="##_URI_ROOT##/entity/edit.php?a=b" > > method="post"> > > <input type="hidden" name="action" value="modify" /> > > ... > > > > both arrays contain appropriate variables when submitted: > > ::: $_GET ::: > > > > Array > > ( > > [a] => b > > ) > > > > ::: $_POST ::: > > > > Array > > ( > > [action] => modify > > ... > > ) > > > > Now what I am interested in is if this is valid behaviour regarding HTTP > > specification and if other platforms support this interference of GET and > > POST variables in request? > > > > Thank your for your answers, > > Bostjan ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
