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PHP

Posted by mm4
mm4
8,600 Points

$_GET, $_POST, and other special variables

I was working through the Shirts4Mike project and still am kinda fuzzy on these special PHP variables. I don't think I'm 100% clear on the differences between them and all the purposes that they serve. Can anyone with a good handle on it help me understand?

1 Answer

Aaron Graham
Aaron Graham
18,033 Points
Aaron Graham
Aaron Graham
18,033 Points

These are superglobals. GET and POST specifically contain the values that were sent along with the http request. For example http://example.com?foo=bar would give $_GET['foo'] a value of 'bar'. POST works in a similar way except it sends the values in the body instead of the url query string.