RE: [PHP-DEV] how-to get array[0] and array["name"] to actually r eference only 1 value?

>not bound together in any way. You may be able to accomplish what you >desire by using references. (See the manual section on references for more >information. > ie. $q->data[0]["id"] =& $q->data[0][0]; After looking for references in the php-code, I found something that seems to work ok (zend_assign_to_variable_reference): zval *dummy, *value, **x_ptr, **y_ptr; MAKE_STD_ZVAL(value); ZVAL_LONG(value, 10); ALLOC_ZVAL(dummy); INIT_ZVAL(*dummy); zend_hash_update(return_value->value.obj.properties, "x", sizeof("x"), &value, sizeof(zval *), (void **) &x_ptr); zend_hash_update(return_value->value.obj.properties, "y", sizeof("y"), &dummy, sizeof(zval *), (void **) &y_ptr); zend_assign_to_variable_reference(NULL, y_ptr, x_ptr, NULL ELS_CC); This leads me to another question: how do I obtain the x_ptr (from the example) if the zend_hash_update was done elsewhere and no ptr was passed then??? zend_hash_update(return_value->value.obj.properties, "x", sizeof("x"), &value, sizeof(zval *), NULL); [...] // How do I get the x_ptr ??? zend_hash_update(return_value->value.obj.properties, "y", sizeof("y"), &dummy, sizeof(zval *), (void **) &y_ptr); zend_assign_to_variable_reference(NULL, y_ptr, x_ptr, NULL ELS_CC); Cheerio, Marc.