auto assigns to a variable

[focusbeam]

hello:
i found out that $POST,$GET and $_REQUEST variables will be automactically assigned to another corresponding variable eg.

$POST[name] will be assigned to $name
$GET[age] will be assigned to $age

so that when displaying it u will only need to put $name eg.

echo $name;

instead of

$name=$_POST[name]
echo $name;

is this only true in php 4 or it is also true in php3??

thx

[LordShryku]

That's only true if register_globals is on or you have used [man]extract[/man].

[hkucsis]

Depend on the setting of register_globals instead of the version of PHP. Starting from PHP 4.x (forgot), the default value is OFF.