LethPhaos

solved, issue was in one of my other functions, a nights sleep does wonders I'm going to rewrite it anyway, to work the other way around: start from object and get each value from the $_POST array, this will be safer

When copying $_POST to a new var $post and using that new var to do the rest of the processing doesn't help...

There's probably an obvious reason but I can't seem to find it... I start with the $_POST array, received from a form: array(9) { ["Name"]=> string(3) "KTN" ["SQLServer"]=> string(24) "10.6.11.20\VSQLI028,1433" ["Username"]=> string(2) "GF" ["Password"]=> string(2) "GF" ["MasterDB"]=> string(11) "GFMaster_KN" ["Version"]=> string(3) "4.9" ["Prod"]=> string(1) "1" ["Monitored"]=> string(1) "0" ["button"]=> string(38) "updateColumnName=EnvironmentID;Value=1" } I get the button value from the array, and unset the button array value. function load_POST($name) { //returns value and removes it from $_POST array. returns NULL if not existing. $debug = 0; if ( $debug == 1 ) { $backtrace = backtrace(); echo __FUNCTION__."()"; echo " <i>called by ".basename($backtrace[1]['file'])."</i><br/>\n"; } $post = NULL; if( array_key_exists($name, $_POST) ) { $post = urldecode($_POST[$name]); if ( $debug == 1 ) { echo "post $name, value: $post<br/>\n"; } } else { if ( $debug == 1 ) { echo "post $name: doesn't exist<br/>\n"; } } unset($_POST[$name]); return $post; } $_POST is now: array( { ["Name"]=> string(3) "KTN" ["SQLServer"]=> string(24) "10.6.11.20\VSQLI028,1433" ["Username"]=> string(2) "GF" ["Password"]=> string(2) "GF" ["MasterDB"]=> string(11) "GFMaster_KN" ["Version"]=> string(3) "4.9" ["Prod"]=> string(1) "1" ["Monitored"]=> string(1) "0" } Then I create the object to assign the values to: object(Environment)#1 (9) { ["EnvironmentID"]=> NULL ["Name"]=> NULL ["SQLServer"]=> NULL ["Username"]=> NULL ["Password"]=> NULL ["MasterDB"]=> NULL ["Version"]=> NULL ["Prod"]=> int(0) ["Monitored"]=> int(0) } So far so good Then, for each remaining $_POST value, I update the Object accordingly: First one, parametername: Name, parameter: KTN object(Environment)#1 (10) { ["EnvironmentID"]=> NULL ["Name"]=> string(3) "KTN" ["SQLServer"]=> NULL ["Username"]=> NULL ["Password"]=> NULL ["MasterDB"]=> NULL ["Version"]=> NULL ["Prod"]=> int(0) ["Monitored"]=> int(0) ["ColumnName=EnvironmentID;Value=1"]=> object(stdClass)#3 (1) { ["ColumnName"]=> string(1) "1" } } And there we have the problem, for some reason the button value is added to the object somehow... Any ideas? Thanks in advance!