Session Variable variable

[blankskull]

session_start();
$_SESSION['jobs_username']="john";

$pox='jobs_username';

$dox="_SESSION['" . $pox . "']";

echo $$dox;



N.B. The output should be 'john'. But I did not get the expected result. Can anyone please help me? I am grateful to this site because I got the first free help on php from this site.

[Inigoesdr]

You don't need a variable variable for this; you can simply use the string as a key:

PHP Code:

echo $_SESSION[$pox]; 


[Fou-Lu]

variable variables are always a terrible idea.
This is an array, not a variable. You cannot pull a variable variable directly from an array for that you need eval. You can pull $_SESSION[$pox] though, so there is absolutely no reason to use a variable variable (as there never is anyway).