I have a form which submits using PHP and method is POST. When I get a
form using C for cgi, I do a check to make sure it's coming in with a
POST, rather than a GET to prevent the cgi from being run directly.
How do you do this in PHP? Right now, I'm checking for a required
field using $_POST['field_name'] and failing if it is not present.
This is working, but seems really kludgy. Could someone point me at
the right way to do this?

Hello Hammer,

You would use the REQUEST_METHOD variable :

Example :

if ($REQUEST_METHOD == 'POST')

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Here is an example usage. If the request came in as a POST, then the
variable $uri will have all blank spaces replaced with the urlencoded
'%20'. In this example, I could then safely send the request to
another server without fear of a malformed request :

if ($REQUEST_METHOD == 'POST') {

$uri = str_replace(" ", "%20", "/test/test/test.php?k=$keyword");

}


Here is more information on the PHP.net website :

"Which request method was used to access the page; i.e. 'GET', 'HEAD',
'POST', 'PUT'."
http://www.php.net/reserved.variables


To assist with this answer I searched the PHP.net website for
documentation on the variable. Thanks for the question!

SgtCory

Exactly what I needed. Thank you, sgtcory!

Thanks Hammer. Good luck with your projects!

SgtCory