Possible bug? (was Re: [PHP] Arrays: Please help before I go insane?)

> In that case, split it up into two-steps, to only init the > array if you need to.... i'm not really sure how the rest of > your code is -- you could probably do this a nicer way, > but this will work: > if (!is_array($ary["this"])) > $ary["this"] = array(); > $ary["this"]["that"] = 1; This is all well and good. But I'm already doing that last one and it's that last that is getting messed up. Again, if you look at the page I gave the link for, you'll see where it says: currentBranch[other][joe] = Array (all good) but the next line it says: Passing to getParentNodes: currentBranch[joe][monster] = SET which it shouldn't. Where it says "SET" it should say "Array". This is what my code is doing: -------------------------- $currentBranch["$nodeName"]["{$nodeInfo[parent]}"] = "SET"; echo "Passing to getParentNodes: currentBranch[$nodeName][{$nodeInfo[parent]}] = " . $currentBranch["$nodeName"] . "<br>\n"; -------------------------- $nodeInfo[parent] is a valid value. So $currentBranch["$nodeName"] should be an array after that. However, by some miracle (or bug in PHP), instead of printing out "Array", it's print out "SET". And I have no idea why it's doing that in my code. The above works fine by itself, however in my function it doesn't *even though they are doing the same things with no other code between*. Chris