PHP: How to Get Data from a Request | PHP get and post form methods

Web Dev Roadmap for Beginners (Free!): https://bit.ly/DaveGrayWebDevRoadmap This PHP tutorial will show you how to get data from a request. We will look at examples of PHP get and post request methods to send and receive data using HTML forms. You will learn how to get data from an HTTP request and store it in PHP variables. Subscribe ➜ https://bit.ly/3nGHmNn PHP is a backend development language that runs on a server. I suggest installing the XAMPP development server. Here is my guide to getting XAMPP set up: https://youtu.be/btauAEqaifw Install XAMPP ➜ https://www.apachefriends.org/ PHP Sanitize Filters ➜ https://www.php.net/manual/en/filter.filters.sanitize.php 📺 This tutorial is part of my PHP and MySQL for Beginners Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0Zuz27SZ-6MeRUt-z60DRxNqcrFAUYIb (0:00) Intro (0:24) Start Apache in the XAMPP control panel (0:58) Inspecting the HTML Form (1:07) PHP Server Variable: PHP_SELF (2:44) Overriding the HTML form method (3:26) The difference between GET and POST requests (5:57) Viewing the $_GET and $_POST arrays (9:12) htmlspecialschars() built-in function (10:25) Applying a filter_input() to sanitize data (13:15) empty() built-in function (15:10) isset() built-in function 📺 Learn Web Dev at these sites: https://www.freecodecamp.org https://www.theodinproject.com ✅ Follow Me: Twitter: https://twitter.com/yesdavidgray LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidagray/ Hashnode: https://yesdavidgray.hashnode.dev/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/DaveOnEleven Was this PHP tutorial about how to get data from a request using get and post methods helpful? If so, please share. Let me know your thoughts in the comments. #php #get #post