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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Adding a Contact Form Working with Get Variables

The order of php code

I am kinda surprised that it worked when you put

if ... $_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST"

in the very beginning of the file. Since

<form method = "POST"> 

comes after. I thought it implied that order does not matter for php. But then you put

if ... $_GET["status"]

right after

<h1>

tag.....if order does not matter, this can be put anywhere in the file.....

So does order matter or not? Thanks!

1 Answer

the two statements are not doing the same thing.. one is checking if your user has submitted a form (Post request), the other is checking if your URL has that param.. so in this case order does not matter.. but generally order DOES matter.. try doing a SQL query from database and then afterwards get the form data which you really need to do the SQL query... it all depends on your application/website