Sasori7

I have a function that get's a quick single item from a query: function gimme($sql) { global $mysqli; global $mytable; global $sid; $query = "SELECT ".$sql." FROM ".$mytable." WHERE sid = ".$sid; $result = $mysqli->query($query); $value = $result->fetch_array(MYSQLI_NUM); $$sql = is_array($value) ? $value[0] : ""; return $$sql; // this is what I've tried so far $result->close(); } It works great as: echo(gimme("name")); Then I realized that I could use that as a variable ('$name' in this case) elsewhere. However, I can't figure out how get that new, variable variable 'outside' of the function. As such, echo($name); isn't working outside the function. Is there a way to return a variable variable? In other words, is there a way to make a function that creates a variable variable that will available outside of the function? Thanks