Trying to understand 'POST'

[TEDSON]

I'm having a little difficulty understanding this.

 

I have my PHP script working fine on my webpage now, that querys mysql and echoes the result , but my goal is not to navigate to the page but to just get a return from it via call from my application (http post maybe?)

 

So my hope is that someone can explain this in terms I can understand.

 

I need to pass variables to the php code so it only checks a given row in a table.

 

Example.

 

SELECT code FROM mytable WHERE user = $variable // this needs to be passed to the code, but not via a form on the page.

 

Most grateful for any explanaitions.

[kickstart]

Hi

 

The easiest way is to use GET rather than POST. This way you can just use something like http://www.example.com/examplescript.php?someparameter=1 , and then refer to $_GET['someparameter'] in the script.

 

POST is possible (and necessary with larger amounts of data) but more complicated to do. GET might well be fine for what you want.

 

All the best

 

Keith

[TEDSON]

Thank you.

 

That does meet my needs for now, and I'm just using wininet, instead of winhttp.

 

Cheers.