How to send a GET request from PHP?

4 years ago

How to send a GET request from PHP?

There are mainly two methods to send information to the web server which are listed below:

GET Method: Requests data from a specified resource.
POST Method: Submits data to be processed to a specified resource.

Get Method: The GET method sends the encoded user information appended to the page request. The page and the encoded information are separated by the ‘?’ character.

For example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=hello

Program: This program illustrates the use of GET method in PHP:

main.php:<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Get request</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="welcome.php" method="get">
<table>
<tr>
<td>First Name:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="firstnamename"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>E-mail:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="emailid"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td style="float:right;"><input type="submit"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
welcome.php:<html>
<body>
Welcome to GeeksforGeeks!<br>
First Name: <?php echo $_GET["firstname"]; ?><br>
Email Address: <?php echo $_GET["emailid"]; ?>
</body>
</html>

Output:

Before Clicking the button:
After Clicking the button:

How to send a GET request from PHP?

How to send a GET request from PHP?

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