[nycphp-talk] Access an element of a method that returns an ar ray
Joe Crawford
jcrawford at codebowl.com
Wed Jul 21 07:59:26 EDT 2004
Scott,
thanks for this clarification that is a feature of 5 that i did not know
about yet ;)
Joe Crawford Jr.
On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 07:54, Scott Mattocks wrote:
> Joe Crawford wrote:
>
> > i dont see this working in 4 or 5 reason being is you have to have the
> > method return the array before you can actually access the elemnets so
> > $obj->method()[3] will not work you must assign it to a variable before
> > you can access it.
>
> PHP 4 doesn't know what to do with this syntax but one of the changes in
> PHP 5 is to let you use the return value of a function without assigning
> it first. If your function/method returns an object you can call
> methods of that object without assigning it to a variable first.
> Ex: $obj->getOtherObj()->method();
>
> Scott Mattocks
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