Building Variables In PHP

How can I build a variable from other variables?

A question I often get is this: how can I make multiple variables into one? The problem is, you put them together, you go to call the variable, but instead of acting like a variable it acts like text. Here is one of the examples sent to me.

$test = "success";
$open = "$";
$close = ";";
$primary = "test";
$ID = "$open$primary$close";
echo $ID;

What the user wants is for the echo of $ID to be "success", but instead it is echoing "$test". What you need to do to make this work, is really very simple. Just put it in between {} symbols. For example:

$test = "success";
$primary = "test";
$ID = ${$primary};
echo $ID;

Now when we execute the code, it is setting $ID equal to $test and therefor the output will be "success".