Hi teacherweeks, Your issue looks like register-globals is set to false in php.ini (which has been the default installation from Php 4.2.0 See http://fr2.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.register-globals for details and security issues. Cheers, Pascalou. teacherweeks wrote: > > I just had to reinstall PHP after my server totally crashed, I have > configured it exactly the same as far as I can tell, however I am > pretty sure there is something that got left out. I am know having > problems with code that was previously workin, most of the errors and > strangeness is coming from variable interactions. Variables are not > passing their informatin from one to another, variables that hold > database information are not working. Does anyone recognize these > symptoms and if so can you point me in the direction of the answer. > > Teacherweeks > >