A bit stuck with $$

Not sure if its me or the configuration of PHP I am trying to get the value of a variable, a variable variable ie // From Form $name = "My Name"; ----------------------------------- // from a list of values in a file $var="name"; $value=$$var; i// I thought I could do something as simple as this to get the correct value "My Name" into $value. print " $value "; // should print "My Name", I zip. I have played around with this bit of code from operators part of the manual and this does not appear to work, well for me at least. $foo = "test"; $$bar = "this is"; echo "${$bar} $foo"; // prints "this is test" Note: it is the same as echo "$test $foo"; // ***** for me it only prints out "test" Any Ideas Cheers Neil Regards Chester Cairns -------------------------------------------------------------