Saturday, March 20, 2010

PHP - $_GET Function

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The built-in $_GET function is used to collect values in a form with method="get"
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Information sent from a form with the GET method is visible to everyone (it will be displayed in the browser's address bar) and has limits on the amount of information to send (max. 100 characters). For instances:


When the user clicks the "Submit" button, the URL sent to the server could look something like this:

http://www.example.com/welcome.php?fname=Ajaq&age=24

The "welcome.php" file can now use the $_GET function to collect form data (the names of the form fields will automatically be the keys in the $_GET array):

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