PHP: $_GET and $_POST in functions?

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When do you you need to include POST
and GET methods as parameters to
functions?

I would say “never”: $_GET and $_POST are what is called superglobals: they exists in the whole script; which means they exist inside functions/methods.

Especially, you don’t need to you the global keyword for those.

Still, relying on those in your functions/methods is quite a bad practice: your functions/methods should generally not depend on anything not passed as a parameter.

What I mean is; consider those two functions:

function check_login_password()
{
    $login = $_GET['login'];
    $password = $_GET['password'];
    // Work with $login and $password
}

and

/**
 * Check login and password
 *
 * @param $login string
 * @param $password string
 * @return boolean
 */
function check_login_password($login, $password)
{
    // Work with $login and $password
}

OK, with the first one, you don’t have to pass two parameters… But that function will not be independent and will not work in any situation where you’d have to check a couple of login/password that doesn’t come from $_GET.

With the second function, the caller is responsible for passing the right parameters; which mean they can come from wherever you want: the function will always be able to do its job.

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