Essentially, Ross, you can use $_POST variables as a regular associative array. $_POST values come from the posted values in a form. If you have a form element called table_name, and your form uses the post method (as opposed to the get method), your script would have $_POST['table_name'] available to it. As the example below shows, you can then check its value. The value of $_POST['table_name'] is the value that was entered in the corresponding form element. In this case, you're looking to see if it's equal to 1. If you want to output the value of a $_POST variable, you could do something like echo "<p>The value of table_name is {$_POST['table_name']}</p>\n"; or if you don't have a free flowing input box you would probably want to output the value with htmlentities or htmlspecialchars. echo "<p>The value of table_name is " . htmlentities($_POST['table_name']) . "</p>\n"; I hope this helps. The previous posters are right though, there is lots of documentation out there Robbert Ross wrote: > Sorry I got confused. I am using variable variables. > > Disregard. > ""Ross"" <ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message > news:08.40.45231.35323734@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >>Thanks fpr all the feedback on the password but I have another one... >> >>How do I use $_POST with variables. Cant find an example of this anywhere >>on php.net >> >> >>if ($_POST['$table_name== 1']) { $tablename = 'yourtable'; if (isset($_POST[ $tablename ]) && $_POST[ $tablename ] == 1) { echo $tablename, ' has been selected'; } >> >>//do something >> >>} >> >>Ta, >> >>ross > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php