# PHP header information

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-header-information/73363
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [December 15, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-header-information/73363 "2004-12-15T17:58:45Z")
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### Author: ![xezton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/d07c76/32.png) [@xezton](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/xezton)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-header-information/73363/1 "2004-12-15T17:58:45Z")

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Ok. I know in Flash you can send php information by using the GET method with PHP and just posting the variable information to the end of the URL. Example, if I had some php file that retrieved information on a certain person, like their age, and my database had several people in it, I could get that information in Flash by loading vars from [http://mysite.com/flashthing.php?name=personsname](http://mysite.com/flashthing.php?name=personsname) , and then I would just print out whatever information that came out.

But, let’s say that in Flash, I want to be able to send large amounts of data, or I simply want to keep the information private… or maybe I just don’t want someone to be able to access the .php file and put in their own variables after the ? and see the output without using Flash. Something like that would require me to use the POST method. But… when trying to send information from Flash to php, I havn’t seend a way to use POST, or some way to add the information to the header.

Is there a way to do this? Or are we stuck with using GET and in-URL values until some later release?

Just curious!

–Xezton