[slightly OT] OOP syntax

I have some procedural code that i'm wanting to convert into classes(and i'm a bit greeen to OOP), hopefully to offer them to the PHP community. I keep all my config data in arrays of arrays, which i'd like to keep when i move to a class model, but can't seem to find out the correct defintion syntax. for example, here is a portion of the array storing connection info to a mssql db(keeping it in db land) $srvr['etime'] = array(); $srvr['etime']['server'] = '27.22.1.5:1433'; $srvr['etime']['db'] = 'dbmaster'; $srvr['etime']['user'] = 'uname'; $srvr['etime']['pass'] = 'pword'; $srvr['etime']['title'] = 'eTime'; $srvr['etime']['dfltch'] = 'N'; $srvr['etime']['optional'] = false; How would this need to be defined at the top of a class to taken on as a class variable/array. Am i thinking of this wrong? I can add them all as scalar variables, but i'd rather work with arrays, as i use the arrays to loop for other functions. I've tried a variety of syntaxes, but keep getting parse errors. thanks for any info you can provide. Jeff