Why exactly are you doing this? While variable-variables can be of use at times, I don't think this is one of them. How do you use this newly created variable. - Craige On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:20 PM, cyaugin <cyaugin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php