Simple get example

When you use a form with the method GET, you will be able to send information (just like $_POST) to another page or itself. This information will be shown in the address bar. A little example of a URL with the GET method will be: http://domain/test2.php?text=This+is+information&number=2585

In this example we did send a form with 2 text fields with as name “text” & “number”. The value’s of those fields (Input by user) are shown in the URL.

test2.php?text=This+is+information

In the above part of the URL ‘test2.php’ will be the receiving page followed with a question mark which indicates that their are values here in combination with the GET method. The second part will be ‘text=This+is+information’! Here, the ‘text’ will be the name of the input field followed with a = sign which indicates that there is a value tagged to this field name which (in this case) is ‘This+is+information’.

This is just 1 value, the ampersand sign (&) indicates a second field, (in this case) the number field with as value 2585. Go on, go on, and go on.

The above example is done with the following 2 little example scripts
Page with form!

<form method="get" action="test2.php">
<input type="text" name="text" />
<input type="text" name="number" />
<input type="submit" value="Do!" />
</form>

Receiving page! (test2.php)

// Get the value's with the GET method.
$text1 = $_GET['text'];
$text2 = $_GET['number'];

echo 'You did send: '. $text1 .' & '. $text2 .' to this page';

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