Variables From External Sources

By Yusuf Khalil

Nov 03, 2021 4 mins read

HTML Forms (GET and POST)

<form action="test.php" method="post">
    Name:  <input type="text" name="username" /><br />
    Email: <input type="text" name="email" /><br />
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit me!" />
</form>

Accessing data from a simple POST HTML form

<?php
echo $_POST['email'];
echo $_REQUEST['email'];
?>

Accessing data from a simple GET HTML form

<?php
echo $_GET['email'];
echo $_REQUEST['email'];
?>