note 7996 added to Arrays

In reply to martin@hkhotmail.com: In order to evaluate more complex variable expressions inside double quotes, you need to use curly braces. They allow PHP to determine what to try to parse as the variable name, and what is the remainder of the string. <?php $array1['tmp']='dummy'; $var2 = "${array1['tmp']}"; echo $var2; ?> This gives: dummy You can also use curly braces to avoid ambiguities in variable names, especially when you do not want spaces after the variable value. <?php $abc = "XYZ"; echo "$abcdef"; // writes nothing; $abcdef does not exist. echo "${abc}def"; // writes "XYZdef" ?> Hope that clears things up. http://www.php.net/manual/language.types.array.php