I was setting up up some test code and got tired of typing in two lines. I wouldn't use in the live code I work on. It seemed an obvious thing to combine the two but when I tried it, it didn't work. I've found in the past that learning how to do things like this helps me understand other problems I may encounter later on so I wanted to learn how to do it to further my understanding of php. But since no one knows how to do it, I'm beggining to think it isn't possible.