php4.2.0 not receiving variables. huh?

[Anon]

Hi folks - I see I may not be alone in this matter, but I've just updated the system to run php 4.2.0 from 4.1.whatever and now my whole system is up the proverbial creek.

Php is handling vars ok:
$var1=25;
print($var1);

but it will not handle vars passed to it through a POST or GET command:

in the url:
test.php?var2=58

<?
print($var2);
?>

draws a blank
please, please please can someone figure out what's wrong - I installed 4.2.0 as an apache module obtained from, and following the intructions of Marc Liyanage

http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/

If this is unsolvable, can someone tell me how to revert back to 4.1.2 - the module is available from Marc's site, but it doesn't install

Cheers in advance

[Anon]

http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-4.php

Now what does the first line of the changelog say?

[Anon]

It says:
"Thou shalt read the frikkin changelogs before whining"

chears
actually, I hadn't noticed, but the path to my php.ini had been set to /usr/local/lib when in fact my config file resides in /usr/lib
Had this had been set properly, I wouldn't have noticed, since she turns globals on.

Cheers for the heads-up