On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Ron Piggott <ron.php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > If $correct_answer has a value of 3 what is the correct syntax needed to > use echo to display the value of $trivia_answer_3? You can use variable variables [1] to access the variable by building its name in a string: $name = 'trivia_answer_' . $correct_answer; echo $$name; Peace, David [1] http://php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php