$_GET and $_POST variables are not recognized?!

[pianoman993]

Hello there Vbulletin experts I have a bit of a problem. I have a page that has $_GET variables in the URL. The problem is that Vbulletin is not recognizing that there are variables there so for instance if my script says print $_GET['variable'] I get nothing. Here's what I got.

I have a custom template named SOUND_SEARCH

<?php

// ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'SOUND_SEARCH'); // change this depending on your filename

// ################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES AND DATA ######################
// get special phrase groups
$phrasegroups = array(

);

// get special data templates from the datastore
$specialtemplates = array(
    
);

// pre-cache templates used by all actions
$globaltemplates = array(
    'TEST',
);

// pre-cache templates used by specific actions
$actiontemplates = array(

);

// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################
require_once('./global.php');

// #######################################################################
// ######################## START MAIN SCRIPT ############################
// #######################################################################

$navbits = array();
$navbits[$parent] = 'Sound Search';

$navbits = construct_navbits($navbits);
eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";');
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('SOUND_SEARCH') . '");');

?>

A form that submits data

<div style="border:1px solid #333;padding:15px;">
<form name="search" method="get" action="soundsearch.php">
    <input type="text" style="width:110px;" name="search_value" /> in 
    <Select name="category">
        <Option value="songs">Songs</option>
        <Option value="artists">Artists</option>
    </Select>
    <input type="submit" name="search" value="search" />
</form>
</div>

A page that receives that data ( the page that will not read the $_GET data )

<?php
echo $_GET['search'];
?>

So basically if my url was www.mysite.com/index.php?variable=helloworld

and I had a template that included a php page that had this:

<?php echo $_GET['search']; ?>

I would get nothing instead of helloworld...

Anybody have any ideas?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

- pianoman993