Form Data - Querystrings?

[Anon]

Hi,

I do some ASP programing and I'm trying to learn PHP. How do you get data from the query string. in ASP it's just request.querystring("Name") How would you do this with PHP.. As well as if you set the form method to post then the data is not in the querystring how would you get that out..... ,

As well it the Book - Learn PHP4 in 24 hours any good?

Thanks,
Adam la

[Anon]

I haven't read the book so I can't comment on it. But as for getting your information from post or get methods it is simplicity in itself for PHP. PHP creates variables for every element passed via get or post, so if you have a form with a text field named text1 when you post/get that form to the PHP page you will have a variable named $text1.

PHP also stores all post and get variables into separate arrays. $HTTP_POST_VARS and $HTTP_GET_VARS.

[yelvington]

You should start with the online PHP manual, which answers this question fairly early.

http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/language.variables.external.php