$var = $_GET["var"] with POST?

[sebbothebutcher]

i have a question: i'm new to php so i created a very small programme that writes something into a file.
the main file has a textarea and a submit button.

<form action="textwrite.php" method="get" name="textform" id="textform"> 
 <p> 
 <textarea name="text" cols="40" rows="10" id="text"></textarea> 
</p> 
 <p> 
 <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Save"> 
 <input type="reset" name="Reset" value="Delete"> 
 </p> 
</form> 

currently the form method is GET because the file "textwrite.php" uses

$text = $_GET["text"];

can i also use POST in the form? if not, what else can i use to assign the textarea input to a variable?
thanks in advance!

[jatar_k]

you can change the method of the form to post and then swap tha vars in the file from $_GET['varname'] to $_POST['varname']

[sebbothebutcher]

okay thank you! it worked!