when you call a page with a query string (index.php?variable) you can read it with getenv("QUERY_STRING"). How then do you return multiple query strings (index.php?var1=texta&var2=textb)? Does getenv("QUERY_STRING") then return an associative array?
It doesn't matter how many variables are in it, there is always only one query string in a get request. If you want the individual variables and values, they are in an associative array called $GET[]. If it is a form posted, the vars are in $POST[].