Among $_REQUEST, $_GET and $_POST which one is the fastest?

Question

Which of these code will be faster?

$temp = $_REQUEST[\'s\'];

or

if (isset($_GET[\'s\'])) {
  $temp = $_GET[\'s\'];
}
else          


        

Answer 1

There are certain security concerns involved as a hacker can set a cookie that will override a $_POST or $_GET value. If you handle sensitive data, I would not recommend using $_REQUEST. – Xandor

you can't be used $_GET alternative of $_POST on some case.

When ??

• when you want to upload a file.
• when you don't won't to show a data in url.

GET also has limits on the amount of information to send. The limitation is about 2000 characters.

Other thing's there are few case when you can't retrieve a data using $_POST

When ?

• when data is passed in URL.

For Rest Service

`GET` - Provides a read only access to a resource.

`PUT` - Used to create a new resource.

there is nothing be wrong to use $_REQUEST.

But the way to do that is to check $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] explicitly, not rely on $_POST being empty for a GET.