slowlygoinginsane

Thanks Dr and ignace.... problem solved! The eval article actually explained why it was not working. Thanks both. Have a great day!

Hi Guys, I have a very basic question that I cannot seem to answer ... so would appreciate any help / advise. Code snippet: $Text1="Hi, how are you"; $Text2="Hey there stranger"; $Text3="Its about time!"; $random_number = rand(1,3); $WelcomeText = "$"."Text".$random_number; echo $WelcomeText; The above script generates the output as $Text3 but what I am trying to achieve is this output: Its about time! I know I can use an array and output the value ... but I wanted to know -- why the above code would not work. Any help / explaination would be great! Thanks