http_get

[programAngel]

Hi,
if I want to use http_get in order to do the following get request:
http://example.com?user=bob&password=password


should it look like?:

$result=http_get("http://www.example.com/", array("user"=>"bob","password"=>"password"), $info);

or like:

$result=http_get("http://example.com?user=bob&password=password", , $info);

[criterion9]

The second one would be passing the get vars. I'm not sure what would happen if you did it the first way...but I would imagine you would get an error.

[programAngel]

The second one would be passing the get vars. I'm not sure what would happen if you did it the first way...but I would imagine you would get an error.

ok thanks.

[Dasher]

or

$user = $_GET['user'];
$password = $_GET['password'];

[programAngel]

or

$user = $_GET['user'];
$password = $_GET['password'];

and then what?

how should the http_get command look like?

[Dasher]

If what you are trying to do is extract variables from a url there is no need to use http_get. Just use the global variable $_GET[].

One should also sanitize the input. So maybe this would be better;

$user = mysql_escape_string($_GET['user']);
$password = mysql_escape_string($_GET['password']);

On the other hand one does not normally want to expose user names and passwords in plain text in a url. Hopefully those are only examples of what you are trying to do.