I have written agents that use REQUEST_CONTENT to retrieve data from a post.
It's a really nice way to process data (regardless size). The drawback is that you manually have to handle sting encoding/decoding, list, checkboxes and so on...
The createDocument method takes care of the encoding/decoding parts for you. Both techiques are very, very usefull, and which to use depends on the situation....
It's really nice to use the agent method if you want to create XML from the input data....
I have written agents that use REQUEST_CONTENT to retrieve data from a post.
It's a really nice way to process data (regardless size). The drawback is that you manually have to handle sting encoding/decoding, list, checkboxes and so on...
The createDocument method takes care of the encoding/decoding parts for you. Both techiques are very, very usefull, and which to use depends on the situation....
It's really nice to use the agent method if you want to create XML from the input data....