I have only done this when I am building the function name using a string expression, so my advice might not be necessary in your case but it has worked for me: {$function}($var); In that case, the curly braces equate to the eval() function in Javascript. Jay Blanchard wrote: > I don't think you can put a function name in a variable and call it like > $function($var). Yes you can - it's basically the same as variable variables. -Stut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php