diff --git a/Tests/CasperTest.php b/Tests/CasperTest.php
index 12812b7..1ba534e 100644
--- a/Tests/CasperTest.php
+++ b/Tests/CasperTest.php
@@ -287,6 +287,53 @@ public function testEvaluate()
         @unlink($filename);
     }
 
+    public function testEvaluateToVar()
+    {
+        $evaluateHtml = <<<TEXT
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+    <head>
+    <meta charset="UTF-8">
+    <title>test evaluate</title>
+    </head>
+    <body>
+        <a id="theLink" href='http://www.google.com' onclick='return confirm("are you sure")'>link to google</a>
+        <ul id="theList">
+            <li class="item">Item 1</li>
+            <li class="item">Item 2</li>
+        </ul>
+    </body>
+</html>
+TEXT;
+        $filename = '/tmp/test-evaluate-var.html';
+
+        file_put_contents($filename, $evaluateHtml);
+
+        $evaluate_href = <<<TEXT
+
+            var theLink = document.getElementById("theLink");
+
+            return theLink.href;
+TEXT;
+
+        $evaluate_item = <<<TEXT
+            return document.getElementsByClassName("item").length; 
+TEXT;
+
+        $casper = new Casper(self::$casperBinPath);
+        $casper->start($filename)
+            ->evaluateToVar('href',$evaluate_href)
+            ->evaluateToVar('num_items',$evaluate_item)
+            ->run();
+
+        $vars = $casper->getVars();
+        
+        $this->assertContains('google.com', $vars['href']);
+        $this->assertEquals(2, $vars['num_items']);
+
+        @unlink($filename);
+    }
+
     public function testDoubleClick()
     {
         $evaluateHtml = <<<TEXT
diff --git a/src/Casper.php b/src/Casper.php
index e5fec51..310a901 100644
--- a/src/Casper.php
+++ b/src/Casper.php
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ class Casper
     private $TAG_CURRENT_STATUS = '[CURRENT_STATUS]';
     private $TAG_CURRENT_STATUS_TEXT = '[CURRENT_STATUS_TEXT]';
     private $TAG_CURRENT_COOKIES = '[CURRENT_COOKIES]';
+    private $TAG_CURRENT_VARS = '[CURRENT_VARS]';
 
     private $debug = false;
     private $options = array();
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ class Casper
     private $status;
     private $statusText = '';
     private $cookies = [];
+    private $vars = false;
 
     public function __construct($path2casper = null, $tempDir = null)
     {
@@ -212,6 +214,9 @@ public function start($url)
         }
     });
 });
+                
+var vars = {};
+                
 
 FRAGMENT;
 
@@ -542,6 +547,22 @@ public function evaluate($function)
     });
 });
 
+FRAGMENT;
+
+        $this->script .= $fragment;
+
+        return $this;
+    }
+    
+    public function evaluateToVar($var, $function)
+    {
+        $fragment = <<<FRAGMENT
+casper.then(function() {
+    vars.$var = casper.evaluate(function() {
+        $function
+    });
+});
+
 FRAGMENT;
 
         $this->script .= $fragment;
@@ -585,6 +606,7 @@ public function run()
     this.echo('$this->TAG_CURRENT_STATUS' + this.currentResponse.status);
     this.echo('$this->TAG_CURRENT_STATUS_TEXT' + this.currentResponse.statusText);
     this.echo('$this->TAG_CURRENT_COOKIES' + JSON.stringify(phantom.cookies));
+    this.echo('$this->TAG_CURRENT_VARS' + JSON.stringify(vars));
 });
 
 casper.run();
@@ -680,6 +702,10 @@ private function processOutput()
             if (0 === strpos($outputLine, $this->TAG_CURRENT_COOKIES)) {
                 $this->cookies = json_decode(str_replace($this->TAG_CURRENT_COOKIES, '', $outputLine), true);
             }
+            
+            if (0 === strpos($outputLine, $this->TAG_CURRENT_VARS)) {
+                $this->vars = json_decode(str_replace($this->TAG_CURRENT_VARS, '', $outputLine), true);
+            }
         }
     }
 
@@ -739,4 +765,12 @@ public function getCookies()
     {
         return $this->cookies;
     }
+    
+    /**
+     * @return array
+     */
+    public function getVars()
+    {
+        return $this->vars;
+    }
 }
