The url variables after ? (i.e. http://www.lmgtfy.com?q=test)
<?php
if (isset($_GET['q'])) {
echo $_GET['q'];
}
?>
<?php print_r($_SERVER); ?>
Array
(
[HTTP_X_CC_ID] => ccc02-01
[HTTP_HOST] => ddm11.sydlawrence.com
[HTTP_USER_AGENT] => CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)
[HTTP_ACCEPT] => text/html,application/xhtml+xml,text/xml;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
[HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE] => en-us,en;q=0.5
[HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING] => gzip
[HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET] => ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
[HTTP_CONNECTION] => close
[HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL] => no-cache
[HTTP_PRAGMA] => no-cache
[PATH] => /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
[SERVER_SIGNATURE] => Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny13 with Suhosin-Patch Server at ddm11.sydlawrence.com Port 80
[SERVER_SOFTWARE] => Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny13 with Suhosin-Patch
[SERVER_NAME] => ddm11.sydlawrence.com
[SERVER_ADDR] => 93.187.168.39
[SERVER_PORT] => 80
[REMOTE_ADDR] => 38.107.179.216
[DOCUMENT_ROOT] => /home/ddm11/public_html/
[SERVER_ADMIN] => [no address given]
[SCRIPT_FILENAME] => /home/ddm11/public_html/defined_variables.php
[REMOTE_PORT] => 50508
[GATEWAY_INTERFACE] => CGI/1.1
[SERVER_PROTOCOL] => HTTP/1.1
[REQUEST_METHOD] => GET
[QUERY_STRING] =>
[REQUEST_URI] => /defined_variables.php
[SCRIPT_NAME] => /defined_variables.php
[PHP_SELF] => /defined_variables.php
[REQUEST_TIME] => 1337359638
[argv] => Array
(
)
[argc] => 0
)