Comments on: Why waste pages? Be more network friendly with php

By: blog ping

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By: Web Host Right

Web Host Right — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:14:11 +0000

Thanks for a clear explanation on this, ive not come across this before so its always nice to pick up another bit of helpful advice.

By: Shahriat Hossain

Shahriat Hossain — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:14:53 +0000

Opps! my code doesn’t appear.

By: Shahriat Hossain

Shahriat Hossain — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:13:39 +0000

Nice post! We can also add an extra else condition if someone just want only result not the form like below

First Name:
Last Name:

And also should not use $_REQUEST direct because sometimes it is hard to detect query string variable or post variable.

By: MBzle

MBzle — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:01:01 +0000

True…

i did a quick research and got similar feedback…

As soon as i get the chance, i’ll run a few rests with $_POST and observe the results…

Thanks.

By: MBzle

MBzle — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:50:48 +0000

thanks for this!

by network friendly, i meant to avoid using extra pages and waste space if the same can be achieved using one page.

By: MBzle

MBzle — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:47:44 +0000

i didn’t know that you can omit the ‘action’ parameter! thanks for the tip!

can you provide a small demo for the second point so i can be sure i understood it?

By: MBzle

MBzle — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:45:16 +0000

glad you like it!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:21:50 +0000

I think i missed a point. Exactly how is it network friendly? The same if not more code gets executed as the page as to check to see if its the first request or not ( so it doesnt error)and also a seperate page would not get indexed in a search if its not linked. I dont see a form submission as a valid link.

I do however think its a good suggestion as its easier to maintain a single page rather than cross page postbacks.

Love and Peace

By: Gaya

Gaya — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:18:16 +0000

I still think you should load the parameter foo using $_POST['foo'], this to prevent people from adjusting the http request and putting a foo=Send in the querystring. This will also allow people to set the $_REQUEST['foo'] to send.

I advice everyone to NOT use $_REQUEST. This can cause problems if e.g. a $_GET['foo'] and a $_POST['foo'] exist with different variables. I also know cases when a $_REQUEST variable caused an hour or two of work to debug