In what cases should a form method be GET and it w

Question

When creating an HTML form, in what cases should the form use the GET method and it what cases should the POST method be used. This is a simple question to explain the options of using the two depending on how the form and the information will be handled and how it would help to use one of them.

Answer 1

Well, I am noob, but I can say that allways use the $_GET[''] global when information sent to server is not of any security risk. ex: You can not send a password through the URL, on the other hand, you should always use POST for submitting a sensitive data

Answer 2

Had this question recently myself. Best description I found of the differences was here:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_httpmethods.asp