Hello I'm new here, nice to meet you!
I come with problems: I'm using a new server's php and I don't have rights to change php.ini or anything else, so I don't know if this can be solved.
I tried to write a simple HTML form to submit search-engine data to the php page, and tested for its presence via the $_POST array entry. This didn't work and I was confused so tried it on my friend's php installation, which I know it works on. And it did, so I searched online for a similar problem and found a thread on this site talking about $HTTP_POST_VARS, which I've never used.
I'm going to go look up the difference between $POST and the other one now, but does someone off the top of their head know why $HTTP_POST_VARS worked on the new server but $POST didn't? It seems like they would need the same sorts of parameters enabled, no?