[Resolved] HTTP_GET_VARS > Globals on???

[furious5]

Can someone help me, I recently was asked to take a technical test as part of an interview and they picked up on some code.

Up to date, I have accessed any querystring variables like so:

if($HTTP_GET_VARS){
 extract($HTTP_GET_VARS);
}

Then say if the variable I am passing is ?id, I would access the variable using $id.

The guy in question enquired why I was still coding with register globals on. To my mind I wasn't.

Anyone care to explain the finer point of PHP I have missed here???

[furious5]

Its ok, I've found the article on php.net about problems with globals on!

[BuzzLY]

The proper response to such a question is "I always code my apps to be as compatible as possible with any server it might be installed on, in case the application gets moved to a different server."