dynamically naming PHP vars on the fly?

HI all One thing I have been working around but now would love to just do it finally (and save workaround/longer code hassle) is when: I need to be able to create a variable (name it, and assign it a value) whose name is built up from a fixed string concatenated with another string which comes from the value of another (already set) variable. Ie: I want to do this: (I am just assuming it won't work; I haven't even tried it yet) $var1='apple'; $Fruit_$var1="organic"; echo "$Fruit_apple"; // I want this to return "organic" Or how are you guys dynamically naming PHP vars on the fly? ------------ John Butler (Govinda) govinda.webdnatalk@gmail.com