I have this line of code: $q = "This is the string that will go into the query: {${mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['searchstring'])}}"; What happens then is the user supplies 'foo' as the search string, and I get a debug notice "Undefined variable: foo". Why is it treating the value as an identifier and how do I make it do what I actually want it to do? This is on PHP5, latest release. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php