Track POST/GET without using track_vars

[mp96brbj]

I'm trying to stop relying on track_vars and only using $HTTP_GET_VARS and $HTTP_POST_VARS to access form-submitted data.

Is there any easy way to create a variable that contains form data, regardless of whether it was submitted as POST or GET? I don't feel like writing stuff like this every time:

if (isset($HTTP_POST_VARS[foo])
$foo = $HTTP_POST_VARS[foo]
elseif (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS[foo])
$foo = $HTTP_GET_VARS[foo]

[Anon]

You mean, "register_globals" I presume - track_vars is always turned on, now.

Why would you want to do that, any way? All it seems to do is open back up the security hole that turning off register_globals was supposed to close.

[Anon]

if you are using PHP >= 4.1.0 then you can use the $_REQUEST super global array. It contains all user submitted data regardless of method

[mp96brbj]

Thanks devin, that was exactly what I was looking for!

Grumbler: I would only want to do this with a select few variables that I want to be settable with both GET and POST. I figure it is rather secure if I know exactly which variables I'm importing from GET/POST, as opposed to register_globals, which might set any variable without my knowing it. The latter, I agree, opens for potential security problems.

devin wrote:

if you are using PHP >= 4.1.0 then you can use the $_REQUEST super global array. It contains all user submitted data regardless of method