The super hero of the web application is the super array. An example of one from my CMS is detailed below.

$APP_CONFIG[$tbl_faqs]["id_name"] = “faq_id”;
$APP_CONFIG[$tbl_faqs]["question"] = array();
$APP_CONFIG[$tbl_faqs]["question"]["field_name"] = “question”;
$APP_CONFIG[$tbl_faqs]["question"]["field_title"] = “Question”;
$APP_CONFIG[$tbl_faqs]["question"]["field_type"] = “string”;
$APP_CONFIG[$tbl_faqs]["question"]["required"] = “Y”;
$APP_CONFIG[$tbl_faqs]["answer"] = array();
$APP_CONFIG[$tbl_faqs]["answer"]["field_name"] = “answer”;
$APP_CONFIG[$tbl_faqs]["answer"]["field_title"] = “Answer”;
$APP_CONFIG[$tbl_faqs]["answer"]["field_type"] = “string”;
$APP_CONFIG[$tbl_faqs]["answer"]["required"] = “Y”;
$APP_CONFIG[$tbl_faqs]["ordering"] = array();
$APP_CONFIG[$tbl_faqs]["ordering"]["field_name"] = “ordering”;
$APP_CONFIG[$tbl_faqs]["ordering"]["field_title"] = “Ordering”;
$APP_CONFIG[$tbl_faqs]["ordering"]["field_type"] = “int”;
$APP_CONFIG[$tbl_faqs]["ordering"]["required"] = “N”;
$APP_CONFIG[$tbl_faqs]["display"] = array();
$APP_CONFIG[$tbl_faqs]["display"]["field_name"] [...]