Hi folks I mailed this to the list some time ago, but it seems to have got "lost" so here is is again... I had 2 suggestions from the list: 1) indirection - $constant_value = $$constant_name ; I had already tried this, but couldn't get it to work. Unless I am missing something it just gives an "Undefined Variable" error. 2) eval("\$constant_value = $constant_name;") ; This does work. Thanks Paul and CC! Geoff Caplan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]