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<h2>Using POST, COOKIE, or SERVER Data</h2>
<p>CodeIgniter comes with three helper functions that let you fetch POST, COOKIE or SERVER items. The main advantage of using the provided
-functions rather then fetching an item directly ($_POST['something']) is that the functions will check to see if the item is set and
+functions rather than fetching an item directly ($_POST['something']) is that the functions will check to see if the item is set and
return false (boolean) if not. This lets you conveniently use data without having to test whether an item exists first.
In other words, normally you might do something like this:</p>