Hi, > You could use JSON, > > $foo = json_decode('{"a":1,"b":3}'); > > but I guess that's not much better than Richard's suggestion. Didn't think of that (well... it's new). That's actually much better I think, since you get the added boon of ease of portability to JS (if that's even a factor). -- 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