Hi, > $x = (object) array('a'=>1, 'b'=>3, ...); > > which works but isn't very lovely. it's neater in, for example, javascript. Well, you could wrap it up in a function to make it a bit lovelier. Eg: $foo = createObject(array('key' => 'value')); It's not great, but PHP doesn't have a object literal syntax AFAIK. -- Richard Heyes HTML5 graphing: RGraph (www.rgraph.net) PHP mail: RMail (www.phpguru.org/rmail) PHP datagrid: RGrid (www.phpguru.org/rgrid) PHP Template: RTemplate (www.phpguru.org/rtemplate) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php