ZEND API Question: Creating reference

Hi, how do I create a reference to a variable with the Zend API? To be more precise, here is small example: Let's assume there is an array containing a number of elements. I search through that array for a special element, find it and would now like to e.g. add it as a property to an object. It must not be a copy of that element but a reference to it. If I change later any of them both must change. In C this might look like the following (though it creates a copy): lht = children->value.ht; count = zend_hash_num_elements(lht); zend_hash_internal_pointer_reset(lht); for(i=0; i<count; i++) { zval **keydata; zend_hash_get_current_data(lht, (void **) &keydata); if([This is the one I was looking for]) { zend_hash_update(return_value->value.obj.properties, "root", strlen("root")+1, (void *) &(*keydata), sizeof(zval *), NULL); } zend_hash_move_forward(lht); } I tried zend_hash_update_ptr instead but this didn't work either. If fiddeled with refcount and is_ref, also without success. How else could this be done? Uwe -- Uwe.Steinmann@fernuni-hagen.de Tel: +2331 987 4528 Fax: +2331 987 375