when using the cgi version of php as a command line script processor
it does no longer transfer command line arguments into the $argv array

the following script argv.php

  <?php
    var_dump($argc);
    var_dump($argv);
  ?>

when called as 

  php -q argv.php abc def

should return (and does so up to PHP 4.0.3pl1)

  int(3)
  array(3) {
    [0]=>
    string(8) "argv.php"
    [1]=>
    string(3) "abc"
    [2]=>
    string(3) "def"
  }

recent CVS versions of php 4.0.4dev return

  int(0)
  array(0) {
  }

instead ...