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PHP - $_REQUEST


$_REQUEST

$_REQUEST is a PHP super global variable which contains submitted form data, and all cookie data.

In other words, $_REQUEST is an array containing data from $_GET, $_POST, and $_COOKIE.

You can access this data with the $_REQUEST keyword followed by the name of the form field, or cookie, like this:

$_REQUEST['firstname']

Using $_REQUEST on $_POST Requests

POST request are usually data submitted from an HTML form.

Here is an example of how a HTML form could look like:

HTML form

<html>
<body>

<form method="post" action="demo_request.php">
  Name: <input type="text" name="fname">
  <input type="submit">
</form>

</body>
</html>

When a user clicks the submit button, the form data is sent to a PHP file specified in the action attribute of the <form> tag.

In the action file we can use the $_REQUEST variable to collect the value of the input field.

PHP file

$name = $_REQUEST['fname'];
echo $name;

In the example below we have put the HTML form and PHP code in the same PHP file.

We have also added some extra lines for security.

Example

<html>
<body>

<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>">
  Name: <input type="text" name="fname">
  <input type="submit">
</form>

<?php
if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
  $name = htmlspecialchars($_REQUEST['fname']);
  if (empty($name)) {
    echo "Name is empty";
  } else {
    echo $name;
  }
}
?>

</body>
</html>
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Using $_REQUEST on $_GET Requests

GET request can be form submissions as in the example above, with the method attribute of the HTML <form> element set to GET.

GET requests can also be data from a query string (information added after a URL address).

Here is an example of how an HTML hyperlink, with a query string could look like:

HTML link

<html>
<body>

<a href="demo_phpfile.php?subject=PHP&web=W3schools.com">Test $GET</a>

</body>
</html>

When a user clicks the link, the query string data is sent to demo_phpfile.php.

In the PHP file we can use the $_REQUEST variable to collect the value of the query string.

Example

The PHP file demo_phpfile.php:

<html>
<body>

<?php
echo "Study " . $_REQUEST['subject'] . " at " . $_REQUEST['web'];
?>

</body>
</html>
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