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Nicklas Millard
9,542 PointsPHP Basics / Fundamentals
I'd love a track with PHP Basics / Fundamentals. I'm a total newb at PHP, never tried it before and I had hard time understanding the $_POST,SERVER,GET in the Shirts 4 Mike project. I'd like to know what each do and so on.
2 Answers
Aron Kerr
6,787 Points$_POST: This is an associative array that contains values when an html form is submitted using the POST method and your PHP script is the action. These are not visible in the query string of the URI.
$_GET: This is an associative array that contains values when you use the query string of a URI to pass values to your script. This can be through a form submitted using the GET method or by simply hitting the PHP page with query string variables set such as example.com/test.php?var1=bob.
$_SERVER: This is an associative array that contains a ton of information provided by the server PHP is running on. This will have values such as the headers sent by the page that requested you PHP script, the paths to your script and root level directories, the type of browser the client is using, etc.
For more information on any of these variables see the PHP manual at http://www.php.net.
Nicklas Millard
9,542 PointsNice, thanks for the answer! Very helpful :-)