[RESOLVED] Wery simple submit form question

gszauer

I have an html, and php file, the html prints a form witch should pass to the php...
But for some reason it does not work...
The 2 scripts are bouth online on
http://pastebin.com/844926
Can anyone please help?
Thanks for your time, i really appriciate it
~Gabor

Houdini

Your script does not work because a form variable is a string and therefore not an integer The below script will work properly

<?php
$i = $_REQUEST['number1'];//use $i =$_POST['number1'] instead
$j = $_REQUEST['number2'];//use $i =$_POST['number2'] instead
if (is_numeric($i) && is_numeric($j)){
        if ($i>$j){
                print ("$i is greater than $j");
        }else if ($j>$i) {
                print ("$j is greater than $i");
        } else if ($i == $j) {
                print "$j and $i are equal";   

        } else {
                print "Congrats, you monkeyed up my script";
        }
}else {
        print "One or more values entered was not a number";
}
?>

gszauer

Thanks, 1 more question
isnt REQUEST the same as POST and _GET?

bradgrafelman

gszauer wrote:
isnt REQUEST the same as POST and GET?

As well as $COOKIE (reference: [man]variables.predefined[/man]).

Houdini

Well that variable contains the $GET and $POST as well as the $COOKIE variables and therefore is tracking many variables so in the want of efficiency the $POST would contain the information that you want. It is kind of like going into the store and asking to see the entire inventory when all you need is the fruit department and within that department just apples or grapes...it just is more efficient, code wise. 🆒

Piranha

And you have full control over your variables as well if you use $GET, $POST and $COOKIE. As an example, what would happen if you have a cookie named "userid" and then pass a POST value with the name "userid"? I can honestly say that I don't know what value it will use if you use $REQUEST, or if there will be an error message. But I can tell you that it might cause problems that is easily avoided if you don't use $_REQUEST.

Houdini

Good answer Piranha, and quite helpful also!

Weedpacket

Piranha wrote:
I can honestly say that I don't know what value it will use if you use $REQUEST

It's buried away in a small note that it uses the variables_order configuration setting (skipping the 'E' and 'S' parts since they don't come as part of the request, of course). So by default cookies trumps post trumps get, reflecting I guess how savvy the user would have to be to corrupt each source of data. (Not that anything from the user can be trusted of course! $REQUEST just bundles it all into one place.)