I'm not sure if this is what you are asking foobarph but there is an ini directive called register_globals which determines whether or not to register the EGPCS array variables (those within $_ENV, $_GET, $_POST, $_COOKIE and $_SERVER) as normal, global-scope variables (e.g. $_GET['foo'] being available as $foo). This feature is deprecated as of PHP 5.3.0 and removed as of PHP 6.0.0.

Haha.