$QUERY_STRING not working???

[vauneen]

hi,
does anyone have any ideas about why $QUERY_STRING wouldnt return the string after the '?' in a URL?
we have an apache server with php 4.2.3,
if we call phpinfo(), and manually place a querystring in the url ('test.php?fdsfdafdsa') it shows up in the apache environment table under $QUERY_STRING.
but on another page on the server when we call:
echo "QUERY_STRING: $QUERY_STRING<br>";
we get:
QUERY_STRING:
even though we can see the querystring in the url.

any ideas why this would happen???

thanks,
vauneen

[PHPGuru2]

Have you checked what's stored in $GET globals??
If you have a URL http://www.yourdomain.com/page.php?test=yes&test2=no, string after ? is stored in $GET globals.
$GET['test'] has "yes" and $GET["test2"] has "no".

[vauneen]

yep, it seems the newer versions of PHP come with register global set to off by default - i hadnt realised that.

thanks,
vauneen