Splitting POST and GET or how to pass the password

[vanyok]

Hey guys Sorta new to PHP here but getting better day after day. I have a question that I cant seem to figure out.Lets say I have a login form that asks user for the ID and Password.How do I pass the user name as $_GET so it displays in the address bar but pass the password as $_POST so no one can see what the password is ?Is there another way to go about it ? Possibly encrypt that password in the address bar? ( but I'd need to run SSL for that, right ? )Thank you

[jesh]

Maybe you could use javascript to change the action for your form just before submitting so that the userid is passed as a query string while the form itself is submitted via POST. Maybe something like this:

<form action="mypage.php" method="POST" onsubmit="updateAction(this);"><input type="text" id="userid" /><input type="password" id="password" /><input type="submit" /></form><script type="text/javascript">function updateAction(obj){	var userid = document.getElementById("userid").value;	obj.action += "?userid=" + userid;}</script>

[vanyok]

No way to go without Java ? I'm not familiar with it

[specialguy]

No way to go without Java ? I'm not familiar with it

I really doubt there is a way to do this in PHP >.<

[jesh]

No way to go without Java ? I'm not familiar with it

Maybe you could submit all of your form data with a POST and then look into URL rewriting to change the URL the user sees in the address bar of the browser. If you search through this forum, you should see a number of posts about URL rewriting.