Question

For example:

$array = array('f', 'b');
assign($foo, $bar, $array);

// now $foo = 'f' and $bar = 'b'

Does something like this exist in the PHP language? I have never needed something like this before and cannot find anything that will do this.

I just wanted to make sure before I write the function myself – I don’t want to write something that already exists within the language.

Answer 1

list ($foo, $bar) = $array;

list() is something like the opposite of array() and its a language construct. Its especially important to know, that even if its listed in the functions reference of the manual (list()), it isn’t, because no function is writeable.