[thelist] php: difference between post vars?
Paul Bennett
paul at teltest.com
Wed Aug 6 18:16:17 CDT 2003
Simon Willison wrote:
> There's an additional different: $_POST (and $_GET and family) are
>
>super-globals - they are available at all times, even inside
>functions. $HTTP_POST_VARS (which is deprecated and should not be
>used)
>
this needs to be qualified - it should not be used *if your php version
is 4.3 +*, if you use $_POST / $_GET under a previous php version, they
are not recognised as either superglobal or representative of the post
or get vars array
>was a normal global variable, meaning you had to explicitly make
>it available inside functions using the global statement.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Simon
>
>
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