Question

I have a method that does cool magical stuff and then returns my results in the form of an array.

So for instance

public function somemethod()
{
    some stuff that builds an array

    return $stuff;
}

If you do a

$s = stuff();
print_r($s->somemethod());

You get something like

array('a' => 'hi', 'b' => 'hello', 'c' => 'konnichiwa')

How can I access each array element?

$s->somemethod()->a?

$s->somemethod()['a'] ?

Answer 1

Use foreach:

foreach($s->somemethod() as $key => $value)
  //process $key and $value
}

or 1 by 1:

$arr = $s->somemethod();
$arr['a']
// $arr['b']
// $arr['c']