Re: [PHP-DB] php4 to php5

Sounds like you're talking about the register_globals functionality. It's a
php.ini setting that will cause $_POST['foo'] or $_GET['foo'] to be copied
to the global variable $foo. This is somewhat of a security risk, thus
disabled by default.

There's another superglobal array that you might find useful: $_REQUEST.
$_REQUEST consists of variables from $_GET,$_POST,$_COOKIE (in that order, I
believe).

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.register-globals

--GREG

(note:I also posted this to the php-general list as it isn't a db-related
topic.)