note 12741 deleted from function.array-push by jimw

In my experience using array_push does not work with multidimensional arrays $arrayname= array(); array_push ($array["keyname"], $data); array_push($array[1], $data); array_push (($array["keyname"]), $data); First argument to array_push() needs to be an array array_push ({$array["keyname"]}, $data); parse error, expecting `')'' array_push ("$array[keyname]", $data); Only variables can be passed by reference I've tried other syntax too, results in one of the above errors. Guess I'm going to have create a variable variable and then make it an array of data, then make a list of variable variables and make it another array, pass both arrays to a function and make a loop or 3 to parse it. Any recommendations beyond the above? Need to assign multiple values while parsing the reply to a database into an array, grouped by one of the columns of the array.