How to extract $_GET / $_POST parameters in PHP
How the contents from the superglobal arrays $_GET and $_POST can be transferred into normal variables?
If the register_globals setting has been deactivated (which should be the case), the GET and POST parameters can only be accessed via the superglobals of the same name ($_GET, $_POST). As soon as register_globals is switched on, however, a variable with the same name is created for each parameter. When calling up http://www.example.com/index.php?name=Alex&age=25
, for example, the variables “name” (with value “Alex”) and “age” (with value “25”) would be generated fully automatically. To simulate this behavior, the function extract() can be used on $_GET and / or $_POST. The function reads all key-value pairs and creates variables with the key as name and the value as variable content.
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Example : extract()
The following example applies extract() to some sample GET data.
<?php // Fill $_GET with sample data $_GET = array('name' => 'Alex', 'age' => '25'); // $name doesn't exist yet, so that should produce an error var_dump($name); // Extract parameters from $_GET extract($_GET); // Output extracted parameters // this time the output of $name should not produce an error var_dump($name); var_dump($age); ?>
Output:
Notice: Undefined variable: name in [...][...] on line 6 NULL string(4) "Alex" string(2) "25"
We can do the same thing to extract data from $_POST array.
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