GET and POST not usable togethor?

[iemerick]

i often submit forms to files and i include query string variables. ex.
form action="filename.php?ID=25&username=john"

i've found that my GET data (query string) is lost when the user submits the form. (the form is submitted to the correct page but without the query string)

do GET and POST not play nicely togethor in PHP or do i need to reconfigure something?

thanks in advance for any help you guys can offer.

[AstroTeg]

This isn't a PHP issue but the way browsers work.

When using method="get", ALL URL data must be in the form. The browser looks at the action attribute and then collects all the form elements and slaps them up on the URL and then sends it to the server.

With the post method, you CAN have URL data in the action attribute. So you could do what you're asking, but you'd have to reverse your PHP code to look for the form data in the post array and the URL data in the get array.

[mtimdog]

if using forms....set the action to 'pagetodisplay.php?var=1&var2=2' method='post'
to have both post and get. Use php to put your previous get variables into the form action