$_GET and $_POST

dbmasters

OK, I have never used these much, but I am starting to hear that in newer versions of PHP (I am currently running on 4.12 (I believe) that the $GET and $POST are required.

Is this true? and if so, in what version of PHP is it required. Also, I define many variables like many of you do I assume by building a config file that holds a great deal of info from MySQL connection variables and other stuff. Do these included variables need to be defined with $GET or $POST?

I am assuming Query Strings are $GET and form elements are $POST but what are config file-defined variables if anything?

Any insight to share?

Angus

Id like some more info as well 🙂

I just bought 5 books pn learning php from amazon over the last month and not 1 of them covers these new commands.

Looking at the online php.net manual didnt seem to shed a lot of light either.

Unfortunately I think I ned to know about them as I plan on building a shopping cart (yes - another one) and think that they may be useful when sending form data to a SSL URL.

dbmasters

Ya, I have done some digging on php.net and such and found little to nothing about it, but some guys on another forum I was at mentioned this. I have some pretty sizable scripts that will need some re-writting if this happens...which will SUCK! These things are fun to build...once... 🙁

dbmasters

See: http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.registerglobals.php
and: http://www.php.net/release_4_2_0.php

it sounds like it can stay the same if the sysop chooses to leave it the same...it does make me re-think how I code moving forward though, that is for sure...