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<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5">Using POST, GET, COOKIE, or SERVER Data</a><a class="headerlink" href="#using-post-get-cookie-or-server-data" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>CodeIgniter comes with helper methods that let you fetch POST, GET,
COOKIE or SERVER items. The main advantage of using the provided
methods rather than fetching an item directly (<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">$_POST