parsing ini files

Hey everybody, I'm new the list and to PHP, so I thought I'd launch right in with a question. I have a file which contains the following syntax: ; Events listings [event] month = january day = 23 year = 2003 venue = some club description = this is an event [event] month = january day = 12 year = 2003 venue = another club description = this is another event Each one of these headers sections represents the start of a new event. So, my code does the following: $EVENTS = parse_ini_file('./data/events', TRUE); while($key = key($EVENTS)) { $$key = current($EVENTS); //variable variables next($EVENTS); } The problem is that when I try to print the values for $venue, $day, etc, I only get the values for the last section encountered. I need a way to get the values of all the events - do my section heads need to be unique, or can I continue to use the same format in my ini file? Thanks in advance! -Erich-