Bug #18269: Can't access to the HTTP-Vars directly as PHP-Vars

From: steffen@chatgames.info Operating system: Microsoft Windows 2000 PHP version: 4.2.1 PHP Bug Type: *General Issues Bug description: Can't access to the HTTP-Vars directly as PHP-Vars in older scripts i used the php-vars directly like the given http-vars like: /access.php?chat=test as: $chat but after installing php 4.2.1 the var '$chat' is empty and i can only access this by using $HTTP_GET_VARS["chat"]. i have already searched in the changelog but i could not found any changes so i thought that that could be a bug. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=18269&edit=1 -- Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18269&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18269&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18269&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18269&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18269&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18269&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18269&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18269&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18269&r=globals