I am using Linux/Apache/php in my project my php version is 4.4.8 my code was working smoothly while i am in php 4.4.8 i changed my codebase to use php 5 advanced features so asking my hosting company for php5 they told me that add AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php in .htaccess file my php version is swithced to php5 after adding the line but i cannot receive values $_POST global array values are blank if i removed the addhandler line from .htaccess i can able to use the $_POST global array values are present