For example, here is a simple php script I wrote to test it:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
print("$action");
?>
</body>
</html>
And when I access this file from this url:
"localhost/test.php?action=hello"
It does not print hello - and it should!
I have no idea why xampp is doing this. The same file on a different server does print "hello". If anyone could help I would be very grateful.