Well, associative arrays would be a nice thing to have, eh? You are not bound to arrays though. Why don't you just use multiple static vars? You could even combine them in a bigger one, like this:
PHP Code:
temp.core = new TStaticVar();
temp.core.a = new TStaticVar();
temp.core.b = new TStaticVar();
temp.core.a.name = "blah";
temp.core.b.name = "bleh";
And so on.