Find with GET instead of POST

[AlanBrooks]

Noob here.  Sorry if these are stupid questions.  I have built a few sites, none of which had to be secure, with XSLT but this is my first foray into php and the Filemaker PHP API.  I am doing so mainly because I see php as the future for the Filemaker custom web interface and I believe that the php login might be more secure (if I employ SSL on the server.)

With Filemaker 10, using the Filemaker PHP Site assistant, I can use and modify examples of performing a query which uses POST but am have trouble doing exactly the same query with GET. 

1.)  How is a query performed (using the supplied support files like Filemaker.php and fmview.php) using GET instead of POST?  I've dumped the _POST array and constructed an URL that mimics the query using GET but it's not working.  Does the API allow for this type of search or will I have to add functions to allow for this?  (FYI: For the part I am dealing with where I wish to use GET instead of POST, I am not concerned that the user can see the query in the URL.)

2.)  If I use SSL on either server, am I correct that the php login is inherently more secure than the one the XSLT Site Assistant produces?

[Paolo M.]

Try changing all occurences of POSTwith REQUEST!
Ciao
Paolo

[webko]

More fully, in the handler file (the one you are posting or getting to), there will be a number of times that you see blah = $_POST['field']

You can either replace them with $_GET['field'] which will obtain GET objects, or $_REQUEST['field'], which handles both GET and POST

As for logins... If you secure the connection between the end user and the web server with SSL, either method is pretty secure, as the transmitted data in the wild is encrypted.

Cheers

Webko