What is it called when you have explictly declare the name of parameters

What is it called when you have explictly declare the name of parameters, that passed thru the url

like when $thiscount is equal to nothing unless you add

$thiscount = $_GET['thiscount'] ;

And how do you turn it off thru WHM?, I know its supposed to be better etc, but I have to move a bunch fo sites , many of which are not mine, and I don't really want to guess which ones don't have this programmed into them.

ok found it registed globals, now how to turn it on

ok you can override it in the htaccess , with php_flag register_globals on

problem solved

 

You have to do it in the php.ini and then restart the apache daemon.

 

edit.... nevermind you got it.

All you need to do is do it in .htaccess

No need to tinker with php.ini

- GB