diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bridge/PhpUnit/bin/simple-phpunit b/src/Symfony/Bridge/PhpUnit/bin/simple-phpunit
index 110e57d321..b3f302cd34 100755
--- a/src/Symfony/Bridge/PhpUnit/bin/simple-phpunit
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bridge/PhpUnit/bin/simple-phpunit
@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ EOPHP
 
 }
 
+global $argv, $argc;
+$argv = isset($_SERVER['argv']) ? $_SERVER['argv'] : array();
+$argc = isset($_SERVER['argc']) ? $_SERVER['argc'] : 0;
 $components = array();
 $cmd = array_map('escapeshellarg', $argv);
 $exit = 0;