Sizeof variable variable arrays

Hi there guys, Who's awake today then? :) What I'm trying to do is create variable variable arrays and then fill these arrays with values. The problem I have though is that the values don't appear to be getting stored - as following the assignment I have outputted a 'sizeof' command which always outputs 0. Here's a snippet of the code. Any ideas guys??? ........... //store children page_IDs into array for each parent $str_array = "menu_array_" . $current_parent_page_ID; $$str_array = array(); for ($child_cnt = 0; $child_cnt < $number_children; $child_cnt++) { $db_help_structure->next_record(); //get page_ID value $page_ID = $db_help_structure->return_single_result('page_ID'); //$page_ID is now set echo "storing in $str_array position $child_cnt:" . $page_ID . "<br>"; $$str_array[$child_cnt] = $page_ID; echo "size:" . sizeof($$str_array) . "<br>"; } ........... -------------------------------- Email: neil.freeman@asa.co.uk neil_freeman@yahoo.com --------------------------------