Question

I have a simple php test page as follows

<?php
if(isset($_POST['hitme']))
{
    echo "hello world";
}
?>

I’m hitting this page as, http://www.abc.com/page.php?hitme=true but this is not echo’ing anything. Is something wrong with this?

Answer 1

Use $_GET['hitme'], not $_POST, since you passed the value in the query string. $_POST would hold values sent via a <form action='post'>, but not values passed in the query string.

if(isset($_GET['hitme'])) {...}

It’s recommended to read about the differences between PHP’s superglobal arrays.