[FX.php List] Best Practices for Forms

[Kevin Futter]

On 18/7/06 4:12 AM, "Jonathan Schwartz" <jonathan at eschwartz.com> wrote:

> I suppose that there (at least) are two issues here. The first is
> dealing with the original intended question: if with too many fields,
> the URL gets so long that it will not work correctly.

If you're posting data to a database, use the POST protocol to avoid this;
after all, that's what it's for :-) URL-based requests (using GET) are
really for *retrieving* data from a data source. The distinction between the
two is not arbitrary, so it's best to use the one designed for the purpose
at hand. POST = post data to db, GET = get data from db.

-- 
Kevin Futter
Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/



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