[SOLVED] Finding unknown passed variables

[TheNix]

So I want a page to discover any passed variables from any source (post, get, cookies). I don't know what the variable names are that will be passed. How do I get the names and values? If you can show me an example of post i can probably apply the same method for get and cookies. Thank you.

[DeanWhitehouse]

erm something like

 

$vars = $_REQUEST;
foreach($var as $key => $vars)
{
echo "Passed Name: ".$key."; Value: ".$vars;
}

[TheNix]

Thank you very much

[TheNix]

actually I'm getting nothing and I'm just slapping <?php ?> on it. The code is working but nothing is being passed. I'm using post method

[Philip]

It should be:

$vars = $_REQUEST;
foreach($vars as $key => $var)
{
echo "Passed Name: ".$key."; Value: ".$var;
}

 

I prefer:

echo '<pre>';
print_r($_REQUEST);
echo '</pre>';

 

Although use of REQUEST can be iffy and unsecure (as with all user inputs)

[TheNix]

Ya that did it, thank you

[DeanWhitehouse]

O yeah sorry about that, i started writing then looked at the manual (php one) then started again :s

 

print_f would be better than print_r ?

[Philip]

O yeah sorry about that, i started writing then looked at the manual (php one) then started again :s

 

print_f would be better than print_r ?

 

printf is for formatting a string, while print_r will return a human readable variable dump.