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JRequest provides a common interface to access request variables. This includes $_POST, $_GET, and naturally $_REQUEST. Variables can be passed through an input filter to avoid injection or returned raw.

Defined in

libraries/joomla/environment/request.php

Methods

Method name	Description
getURI	Gets the full request path.
getMethod	Gets the request method.
getVar	Fetches and returns a given variable.
getInt	Fetches and returns a given filtered variable. The integer filter will allow only digits to be returned. This is currently only a proxy function for getVar().
getFloat	Fetches and returns a given filtered variable. The float filter only allows digits and periods. This is currently only a proxy function for getVar().
getBool	Fetches and returns a given filtered variable. The bool filter will only return true/false bool values. This is currently only a proxy function for getVar().
getWord	Fetches and returns a given filtered variable. The word filter only allows the characters [A-Za-z_]. This is currently only a proxy function for getVar().
getCmd	Fetches and returns a given filtered variable. The cmd filter only allows the characters [A-Za-z0-9.-_]. This is currently only a proxy function for getVar().
getString	Fetches and returns a given filtered variable. The string filter deletes 'bad' HTML code, if not overridden by the mask. This is currently only a proxy function for getVar().
setVar	Set a variabe in on of the request variables.
get	Fetches and returns a request array.
set	Sets a request variable.
checkToken	Checks for a form token in the request.
clean	Cleans the request from script injection.

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.environment.request' );

• Retrieving data from GET and POST requests