3raser Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Is there anywhere I can find in-depth tutorial on what these mean? The PHP Manual didn't do to good of a job in my opinion. What confuses me is the whole option part of the functions. I need to figure out what these mean. I'm trying to learn about functions like the two; my first project will be an auto-voter that basically just goes to the specified website and enters in the form data. How would I go about doing this? Would I use the functions I talked about above? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259223-http_get-and-http_post_data/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahngiel Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 You should bookmark Tizag, I found that site to be extremely helpful when I was starting out. The short & sweet I can tell you about POST & GET is that POST sends your form's information in an array $_POST[] and GET creates those url query strings you see in some sites look at the uri in this page: index.php?action=post;topic=356002.0;last_msg=1682271 action, topic, and last_msg are $_GET strings and the response follows the = Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259223-http_get-and-http_post_data/#findComment-1328871 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 You should bookmark Tizag, I found that site to be extremely helpful when I was starting out. The short & sweet I can tell you about POST & GET is that POST sends your form's information in an array $_POST[] and GET creates those url query strings you see in some sites look at the uri in this page: index.php?action=post;topic=356002.0;last_msg=1682271 action, topic, and last_msg are $_GET strings and the response follows the = Uh, he was talking about specific PECL functions which allow one script to dynamically send data via GET or POST to another script, then obtain the results: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.http-post-data.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.http-get.php Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259223-http_get-and-http_post_data/#findComment-1328875 Share on other sites More sharing options...
3raser Posted March 19, 2012 Author Share Posted March 19, 2012 Any references or comments? :/ Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259223-http_get-and-http_post_data/#findComment-1328884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyKay47 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Any references or comments? :/ KevinM1 pointed you to each function that you have questions about. Each one of these links provides examples and further comments at the bottom. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259223-http_get-and-http_post_data/#findComment-1328887 Share on other sites More sharing options...
3raser Posted March 19, 2012 Author Share Posted March 19, 2012 Any references or comments? :/ KevinM1 pointed you to each function that you have questions about. Each one of these links provides examples and further comments at the bottom. Read my post closer: "The PHP Manual didn't do too good of a job in my opinion." I want something that better explains the functions and it's parameters. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259223-http_get-and-http_post_data/#findComment-1328901 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 I haven't run into a case when I had to use either function. Worse comes to worse, you can always create a small test script to play around with the functions before attempting to use them in 'real' code. That's what I generally do if I want to try something I've never previously attempted. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/259223-http_get-and-http_post_data/#findComment-1328970 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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