The GET Method

The GET method produces a long string that appears in your server logs, in the browser's Location: box.

Never use GET method if you have password or other sensitive information to be sent to the server.

GET can't be used to send binary data, like images or word documents, to the server.

The data sent by GET method can be accessed using QUERY_STRING environment variable.

The PHP provides $_GET associative array to access all the sent information using GET method.

Try out following example by putting the source code in test.php script.

<?php

if( $_GET["name"] || $_GET["age"] )

{

echo "Welcome ". $_GET['name']. "<br />";

echo "You are ". $_GET['age']. " years old.";

exit();

}

<html>

<body>

<form action="<?php $_PHP_SELF ?>" method="GET">

Name: <input type="text" name="name" />

Age: <input type="text" name="age" />

</form>

</body>

</html>

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