urgently help needed: php script?

[mapperkids]

Hi,

I have a site that run on php4 and I recently switched to different server, once I moved, the script not working properly, but nothing change on the script and I check the permission, mysql table all the same.

The problem is in browser, if I call something like http://www.mysite.com/whatever.php then it works perfectly.

but if some link like http://www.mysite.com/index.php?cmd=5, then it not working, just reload the same page without any error, but it works on the old server.

I think is something about the server setting or .htaccess file, but I don't have .htaccess for that site.

I check the cpanel and can't any setting that may affect that.

Could some php expect here tell me what is wrong and why cause that?

Thanks a lot !

[dougal85]

how do you access the url encoded data? ie. the cmd variable?

It sounds like you maybe had register globals turned on before...

I wont go into to much detail as you can read about it here; http://uk3.php.net/register_globals

[Scriptmaker]

just because it's not showing any errors doesn't mean there aren't any.

put

error_reporting(E_ALL);

at the beginning of the script

if your new server is php5, your problem could be with the following bits of code:

$HTTP_GET_VARS

they should be $_GET instead

http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php