PHP Automatic URL Parsing (?a=xxx -> $a)

[Russinating]

Up until recently my host/site used to automatically parse URL variables. That is, I wouldn't have to use "$a = $_GET['a'];" to retrieve the variable of $a from the URL. Now, something's obviously changed and it's no longer doing that. I changed the htaccess but with nothing related to this as far as I know, so I was wondering how you enable it?

 

[Russinating]

That links great but I can't find an obvious/conclusive way of turning them back on? Tried php_flag register_globals 1 in htaccess to no avail.

 

[Russinating]

None of the options I've tried have worked so I've had to resort to adding various GET and POST codes around my site, which is fine.

The only thing I'm annoyed about is that this has been the case for probably about a week without me knowing (forms etc not working). I just hope that I haven't missed too many customer enquiries and the like as a result.