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Hi, I've inherited some code on a system from another person. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a PHP pro, I am self taught, and use it sparingly for personal projects mainly. So this is a bit beyond my skill level, and I was hoping for some advice: The system is a glorified calendar, with a lot of our own data being slapped on top of it and presented nicely. The issue I have thoguh is that due to the way the calendar is generated, I cant make the height of the days move dynamically based on what content gets dropped into each day on the calendar. If one day is busy and has 8 events drop into it, they will overflow the days cell. I wanted to adjust the height of ALL cells on a month view calendar to the heighest required height of all cells in that view. What I was going to do, is +1 to a coutner for every event (or block) that is generated for each day (days are looped through a private function), and commit that number to an array. At the end fo the loop (after all days ahve been counted and have a value in the array), I was going to use max() on the array, pull the largest number, calculate the days cell hiehgt from that and apply it via CSS at page level. I've summarised the code in effect here (psuedo code, not real PHP): class Calendar { public $heights; private fucntion dayLoop($cellNumber) { $heights = []; //array $block_count = 0; //counter while(mysqlrowdata) { [code for mysql operations] $block_count++; //increment the count } $day_height = ($block_count * 16) + 18; //do some math specific to my application $this->heights[] = $day_height; //commit calc'd value to array //array_push($heights, $day_height); //this was a previosu attempt, i dont think i should use array_push here..?? } } That function, and others is called from the front end pages to generate the calendar. If I do a: var_dump($heights); after it on that page, all I get returned on screen is "Array ( )" I tried changing the private function to a public one, but this did not affect the outcome. Anyone have any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Is my logic sound? Can I commit values to an array inside a loop in a public OR private function and then reference that array outside of the loop? I defined $heights as public in the class too, but that didnt change the outcome either. Thanks.