PHP help

[kau]

I have a form that once a user hits submit enters the data into the database.

To do this I am passing all the variables through the URL to another PHP script and having PHP grab them and insert them. Problem is the text area box is huge and cannot pass paragraphs upon paragraphs of data. How can I insert this into the database?

THanks

[Colin F]

why don't you pass the values with the $_POST variable?

you instruct the forum to post and then fetch the vars in the other script with $_POST['varname']

[kau]

How do I do that? Searched the PHP site and only tutorial I found was saying
$variable = $_POST["variable_passed"];

That is still passing them through the URL address which is not long enough for my huge text box.

[Colin F]

No, you just make the form point to the other script, and then in the other script you'll have the $_POST['inputname'] variables available.
They aren't being transferred in the URL.

Here is the quote from php.net (http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.post):
HTTP POST variables: $_POST
Note: Introduced in 4.1.0. In earlier versions, use $HTTP_POST_VARS.

An associative array of variables passed to the current script via the HTTP POST method. Automatically global in any scope.

This is a 'superglobal', or automatic global, variable. This simply means that it is available in all scopes throughout a script. You don't need to do a global $_POST; to access it within functions or methods, as you do with $HTTP_POST_VARS.

$HTTP_POST_VARS contains the same initial information, but is not an autoglobal. (Note that $HTTP_POST_VARS and $_POST are different variables and that PHP handles them as such)

If the register_globals directive is set, then these variables will also be made available in the global scope of the script; i.e., separate from the $_POST and $HTTP_POST_VARS arrays. For related information, see the security chapter titled Using Register Globals. These individual globals are not autoglobals