GET & POST a little help please

message from lparnau on 16 Jul 2004
When passing a variable using the http address line or header you add "?nameof
variable=value".

My question is what is the default name given to a passed variable when you do
not pass the name "?username"

How do I capture the variable or variables? I am using PHP.

Leonard
 
meangreen replied to lparnau on 16 Jul 2004
If I am correct this is a HTML forms question rather than a dreamweaver one.

http://www.yoursite.com/forms/form1.php?var1=one&var3=three

Then the value of var2 is undefined (meaning unless your script assigns a
default value to the variable before retrieving the values from the URL, then
there isn't a default value.)

Hope this helps, and try searching Google for help on HTML forms and PHP
scripting.
 
Gary White replied to lparnau on 16 Jul 2004
There is no default name. The example you give, "?username" would pass a
value that you would access with $_GET["username"] and its value would be an
empty string.

Gary
 

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