Re: A problem with associative arrays..

Did anyone come up with a solution for this? - I'm having exactly the same problem at the moment. Cheers Lez ----- Original Message ----- > > > He's not defining it as a string. He's accessing it as an array. > > > Does it still apply? What if he defined $conf to be an array > > > prior to this? > > > > Think of it this way: > > > > $conf['db'] = "testdb"; > > > > Now, when you try to assign something to $conf['db']['host'] the > > $conf['db'] part is "testdb", what would > > "testdb"['host'] be? Since > > $cond['db'] is a string, the 'host' index of this string is the same > > as > > "testdb"[0] which is the first position of the string. So when you do: > > > > $conf['db']['host'] = "dbhost"; > > > > You end up with, "destdb", because there is only room for the first > > character of "dbhost" in the $conf['db'][0] slot. > > > I guess I just have to fix up a work around to this. :) >