PHP: Array access short-hand?

Question

In Javascript, after executing a function I can immediately get the an element of the array returned by the function, like so:

myFunc("birds")[0] //gets element zero returned from "myFunc()"

This is much easier and faster than doing this:

$myArray = myFunc("birds");
echo $myArray[0];

Does PHP have a similar shorthand to javascript? I'm just curious. Thanks in advance!

Matteo Riva · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-21 00:01:26Z

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No, unfortunately in PHP you can only subscript an array variable, no other kind of array returning expression.

answered Mar 21, 2010 at 0:01

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M Miller · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-27 00:03:31Z

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reset(myFunc("birds"))

Will work nicely, although it doesn't work on associative arrays.

Or, of course, you could write a function, e.g.

function arr_get($arr, $i)
{
 return $arr[$i];
}

echo arr_get(myFunc("birds"), 0);

answered Dec 17, 2010 at 23:51

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Matthew · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-27 01:18:58Z

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Short answer is no.

Longer answer is maybe coming soon. See:

Last time I used the PHP trunk, it worked fine.

answered Feb 27, 2011 at 1:18

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