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Jean Galea: entrepreneur and internet specialist. Holding an M.Sc. in Multimedia & Internet Computing from Loughborough University, Jean specialises in web design and development, email marketing systems and general internet consultancy.
PHP Notes – POST Vs. GET
POST and GET are not functions, they are actually variables. The Get variable will attach to the URL as: http://www.site.com/script.php?post=input_text
This is not as secure as Post, which will hide information being sent. Get will allow the user to modify input_text to change parameters of the script.
These variables are used to pass in data from a form to variables in the script. To make things easier for forms processing, they are split up into two files. One is the html file that is supposed to take input from the user. The other file is the php file and it does the “dirty work” of processing.
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Note that there is nothing more secure about using post instead of get. Any $_POST variable is sent in plain text over the network and can be easily sniffed over the network.
Hence it is a false sense of security to assume that $_POST variables are more secure then $_GET
Using SSL (https) will solve these issues.
Just thought i’d let you know