how different between method post and get ??

itsgood

i'm often using method post, but a lot of desiner using method get , so , why using get but using post in from on the web😕 .

bradgrafelman

If you're submitting a form, it depends on which method you use to submit the form:

<form method='get' action='myscript'>

would require you to use the $_GET[] superglobal.

OR, if you're passing arguments through the URL, say:

http://mydomain.com/myscript.php?foo=bar

you could retrieve the value of the 'foo' parameter using $_GET['foo']

More information on $GET[] and $POST[] here in the manual.

TheDefender

A couple of things to add...
The GET method, since it is passing the data through the URL, is limited to 255 characters. So, if you are trying to pass data in a TEXT field, for example, it could get chopped off.

Also, it's always a bad idea to pass a username or password (encrypted or not) through the URL in a GET method.

In these cases, you'd want to use the POST method to pass your form data.

bradgrafelman

Also, not that it's foolproof by ANY means, but consider this:

It's marginally harder to mess with POST'd data versus data retrieved by GET. Most newbies don't even know how to do it.

In general, you should always use POST to submit data, unless you're talking about something small you'd rather put in links, like a pageid, etc. One such reason would be the one I mentioned above, but another excellent point was made by TheDefender in regards to the size limitation imposed by GET.