adding jpg to a variable

[JacobOnly]

I am creating a variable from an XML file ($image) and I need to create a new variable that combines $image with '.jpg'. I've tried:\[code\]$image = $record->getElementsByTagName( "name_id" ); echo $image.".jpg"; $image = $image->item(0)->nodeValue;\[/code\]But this doesn't add .jpg to the variable in the script. The reason I need to do this is the XML file doesn't have the jpg file extension only the image reference as a sequence of numbers. Any ideas?