Question

i have class method which returns an associative array with a single value in it for example.

the following method call

print_r($acl->getPermNameFromId(1));

returns the following value

Array ( [permName] => Access Admin )

now instead of accessing the value by assigning the function call to a variable like

$permName = $acl->getPermNameFromId(1);
$permName = $permName['permName'];

is there any way i could directly access the value as a string?

for example i would like to access it by

echo $acl->getPermNameFromId(1){$permName};

ofcourse the above syntax is wrong. but is there any way PHP allow me to do this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I don’t think your going to get it using direct access. My first thought was like @Cameron.

However, the next thing I thought about is some minor trick, but your making alot of assumptions that you will always return an array with that exact key, but because you asked.

echo array_search('permName', array_flip($acl->getPermNameFromId(1)));