Sounds like you're talking about the register_globals functionality. It's a php.ini setting that will cause $_POST['foo'] or $_GET['foo'] to be copied to the global variable $foo. This is somewhat of a security risk, thus disabled by default. There's another superglobal array that you might find useful: $_REQUEST. $_REQUEST consists of variables from $_GET,$_POST,$_COOKIE (in that order, I believe). http://us3.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.register-globals --GREG (note:I also posted this to the php-general list as it isn't a db-related topic.)
