Question

I want to be able to do the following:

$normal_array       = array(); $array_of_arrayrefs = array(&$normal_array);  // Here I want to access the $normal_array reference **as a reference**, // but that doesn't work obviously. How to do it? end($array_of_arrayrefs)["one"] = 1; // choking on this one  print $normal_array["one"]; // should output 1 

Answer 1

end() doesn’t return a reference of the last value, but rather the last value itself. Here is a workaround:

$normal_array       = array(); $array_of_arrayrefs = array( &$normal_array );  $refArray = &end_byref( $array_of_arrayrefs ); $refArray['one'] = 1;  print $normal_array['one']; // should output 1  function &end_byref( &$array ) {     $lastKey = end(array_keys($array));     end($array);     return $array[$lastKey]; }