$_POST vs. $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_METHOD’] == ‘POST’

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Well, they don’t do the same thing, really.

$_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] contains the request method (surprise).

$_POST contains any post data.

It’s possible for a POST request to contain no POST data.

I check the request method — I actually never thought about testing the $_POST array. I check the required post fields, though. So an empty post request would give the user a lot of error messages – which makes sense to me.

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