# Weird / stupid little thing **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [July 28, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/weird-stupid-little-thing/26972 "2003-07-28T20:47:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vision\_R](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/vision_r/32/284_2.png) [@vision\_R](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/vision_R)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/weird-stupid-little-thing/26972/1 "2003-07-28T20:47:56Z")
I’ve got this code: \_level0.tester = ‘If you’re in’; word = \_level0.tester; Then I have a dynamic text box which has to echo the variable ‘word’. If I do this, nothing happens and the text box is empty. If I tell the text box to echo ‘\_level0.tester’, it works and I get what I want. Why is this second line of code not working? Am I confused here (used to working with PHP and stuff) or what? How can I create another variable which gets the value of the first variable? ;( ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/weird-stupid-little-thing/26972/2 "2003-07-28T20:57:32Z")
Hi, This worked for me… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/weird-stupid-little-thing/26972/3 "2003-07-28T20:58:36Z")
By using \_level0 you are defining your variable on that level and thus you need to target that level to call your variable. Remove \_level0 altogether and the variable will be declared in that timeline and it should work just fine if you use just ‘tester’ instead of ‘\_level0.tester’.