How to detect if $_POST is set?

Question

I want to know how to detect if $_POST is set or not.

Right now I detect it like this:

if(isset($_POST[\'value\']))

But I\'m not lo

Answer 1

Try with:

if ( $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST' ) {}

to check if your script was POSTed.

If additional data was passed, $_POST will not be empty, otherwise it will.

You can use empty method to check if it contains data.

if ( !empty($_POST) ) {}

Answer 2

A simple solution may well be to just use

if (!empty($_POST))

Answer 3

I know this answer has already been answered, but here's a simple method I'm using in one of my classes to figure whether the post has been set (perhaps someone will find it useful):

public function isPost($key = null) {

    if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] != 'POST') {

        return false;

    }

    if (!empty($key)) {

        return isset($_POST[$key]);

    }

    return true;

}

Answer 4

Just use it as below. because its super global so its always return true when checking for isset and empty.

<?php
    if($_POST)
    {
        echo "yes";
    }
?>

Answer 5

Best way to check $_POST

<?php 
if(count($_POST)){}

Answer 6

$_POST is an array. You can check:

count($_POST)

If it is greater than zero that means some values were posted.