Samura1 wrote: >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? > > The disvantage of POST, or better, the advantage of GET is that the variables are passed with the url.
That allows for urls that have data atached and thrus allows the creation of portals and content servers. Otherwise, the user would bookmark always the start page of the portal/content server. It is rather a question of choice. BTW... the advantage of POST is that it allows file uploading and sending big quantities of information to the server. GET has some limits [arround 2Kb more or less... depends a bit on the browser/server combo]. Cheers, Luis Ferro TelaDigital P.S.- as for the user not see the vars, well... that isn't of big importance as the user has access to all fields in the forms on the site... In any case i would recomend to perform regexp parsing on all vars received thru both post and get... just in case... --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
