ok, so i have pages where it does things like

edit.php?action=post

and what it used to do was grab $action automatically...but now im having to edit through all my pages that are coded similarly...and put

$action = $HTTP_GET_VARS["action"];

before it used to grab it automatically so, their has to be a setting in my php.ini or httpd or something that allows it to get automatically, can anyone please help out

Register Globals was on before and now its off. This is probably for the best anyways. Also you could save yourself some time and trouble down the road ($HTTP_*_VARS, is going to be deprecated in future releases of php) by using $_GET['action']