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Asked: 2026-06-02T04:43:43+00:00

Is there a way or piece of code that looks for POST and GET

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Is there a way or piece of code that looks for POST and GET data and turns them into normal variables?

I mean it to make:

$_POST["hello"] = "Wow."

into

$hello = "Wow."

But also be able to do it automatically and with many POSTS and GETS, so like this:

$_POST["name"]="John"; 
$_GET["email"]="john@john.com"; 
$_POST["sex"]="male";

into

$name="John"; 
$email="john@john.com"; 
$sex="male";

I know the second example is impossible (you can’t get GET and POST data at the same time (or so I know), but the idea is that whether the page gets a GET or a POST variable it should turn it into variables automatically.

So is there a function or something that can help me?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use extract(): extract($_REQUEST); ($_REQUEST combines $_POST and $_GET)

    But I would consider it as bad practice, because it adds some black magic to your code which can lead to unpredictable situations. Also it’s easily exploitable:

    Consider that you have a variable: $secret = 100; which nobody should change.
    Now comes a kinky user and injects following POST variable in a form submit: $_POST['secret'] = 200;
    There you have the exploitation!

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