Object member variable names

Hi, I've got a little problem with variable naming of object members. Here is my situation: I've got a website form, whoms contents will be saved in a MySQL table with two fields: name and value. The name could be anything like "bla->test", "array[3]->test[4]->name"... Now I have a php script reading out the MySQL table, and I want to assign the variables like this: $object->$name, i.e. $object->bla->test = "some value"; $object->array[3]->tes[4]->name = "some other value"; etc. Using $object->$name doesn't work, as this seems to ignore submembers and arrays. Any ideas how to solve my problem? Regards, Karl -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net