One more thing,
I found that POST is better than GET as user won't see the variables ....
But there must be a disadvantage of POST, otherwise, no one use GET...
do you know what are the disadvantages of POST?
Thank you.
p.s and I'm looking for a very good website which talk about when you should
use this or when you shouldn't use this on PHP (including reasons) ... if u
know, pls let me know... as I'm a DIY learner, just trying everything out
but dunno it's a good way to do or not...
"Samura1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó·s»D
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> Hey man, your post is very helpful ...
>
> But actually, I just found out the solution on the web...
> You know what, most web sites are just telling you what does it do (submit
> to the server, header...$#&Q*^$@#) , but doesn't give u an example...
>
> Until I just found an example on the web, make my mind much clearer...
>
> And your example is exactly what I need before...
>
> Thanks anyway..
>
>
>
> "B.A.T. Svensson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ???????:000601c243a6$fb3b12e0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Well lest go trough the basic steps then (but I still recomend you to
> visist the www.w3.org
> > and realy spend some time trying to understand the specifications - it
> will save you lots
> > of headache in the future...):
> >
> > First you start with the FORM tag:
> >
> > <form method=POST action=start.asp>
> >
> > Here we see two attributes METHOD and ACTION.
> >
> > METHOD should be POST in our case, and the ACTION is a pointer to a page
> that should
> > be handling the FORM request. In this case that page is called
START.ASP,
> in your
> > case it should probably be with the file extension .PHP.
> >
> >
> > What we then need is some interactive input fields:
> >
> > <select name=Tissue>
> > <option value=0>Unspecified</option>
> > <option value=1>Brain</option>
> > <option value=2>Eye</option>
> > <option value=3>Liver</option>
> > <option value=4>Heart</option>
> > <option value=5>Muscel</option>
> > <option value=5>Splein</option>
> > </select>
> >
> > We choice to display a drop down menu with some various items found
> > in the OPTION-tag. The SELECT as to be refereed with a NAME so we can
> > refer to it once the START.ASP page is loaded. The name of the variable
> > that START.ASP will be able to figure out which option we select will
> > hence be "Tissue".
> >
> > Finally we need a button to be able to submit the selected data:
> >
> > <input type=submit value='Go now' name=Submit>
> >
> > And then we ends the form:
> >
> > </FORM>
> >
> > Once we press the "Go Now" button, the form data will be posted to the
> > webserver, but the handlig page (START.ASP) need a script to extract
> > the data. This is done like this is VBScript:
> >
> > Tissue = Request.Form("Tissue")
> >
> >
> > In PHP I think a reference to a posted variable is done something like
> this:
> >
> > $HTTP_POST_VARS['Tissue'];
> >
> > Knowing this it should be a quite simple to continue with whatever you
> need to do.
> >
> > Check this link for more details about POSTing:
> >
> >
>
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php#language.variab
> les.external.form
> >
> > If you want to uplaod a file instead, you might want to check this out:
> >
> > http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Anders
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Samura1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 5:01 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] PHP & "POST"
> > >
> > >
> > > First, I don't know how to use POST, is it just changing the value GET
> in
> > > the form to POST?
> > > Secondly, because I don't know where does it send to, I don't know
where
> to
> > > get it, and I don't know how to get it even I know... so.......
> > > Anyone can show me an example coding for POST and how to get the data
> from
> > > POST pls....
> > >
> > > "B.A.T. Svensson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > ???????:000001c24381$9ebbb8a0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Have you tried this URL yet:
> > > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#edef-FORM
> > > > (www.w3.org might want to be your first choice when your are looking
> for
> > > specifications
> > > > details about HTML and HTTP transfers.)
> > > >
> > > > Also remember that GET is restricted to ASCII transfers, and if you
> > > happens
> > > > to have binary data you should uses POST.
> > > >
> > > > But more precisly what are your problems:
> > > >
> > > > 1) can't post the data
> > > > 2) can't get the values from posted data
> > > > 3) something else
> > > >
> > > > ??
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Anders
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Samura1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 12:32 PM
> > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > Subject: [PHP-WIN] PHP & "POST"
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Hey guys,
> > > > > I want to know how to retrieve data from POST (form) ...
> > > > >
> > > > > What I want to do is...
> > > > >
> > > > > I've got a textarea for ppl to enter large amount of text (essay),
> and I
> > > let
> > > > > ppl submit it (using POST), then insert these data into mySQL.
> > > > >
> > > > > I get it working if I use GET (I only know how to use GET, dunno
> about
> > > POST)
> > > > > with small amount of words (say 1600 characters), but when there
are
> > > more
> > > > > than 2000 characters, the submit button doesn't work. And I found
> that
> > > it is
> > > > > becoz GET does not allow too large amount of text appear in the
> URL...
> > > > >
> > > > > So anyone can teach me how to get data from POST? I read some web
> sites
> > > but
> > > > > still have no idea how to do it ... I think I need an example...
> > > > >
> > > > > Please help
> > > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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