Question

If I have the following class example:

<?php
class Person
{
    private $prefix;
    private $givenName;
    private $familyName;
    private $suffix;

    public function setPrefix($prefix)
    {
        $this->prefix = $prefix;
    }

    public function getPrefix()
    {
        return $this->prefix;
    }

    public function setGivenName($gn)
    {
        $this->givenName = $gn;
    }

    public function getGivenName()
    {
        return $this->givenName;
    }

    public function setFamilyName($fn)
    {
        $this->familyName = $fn;
    }

    public function getFamilyName() 
    {
        return $this->familyName;
    }

    public function setSuffix($suffix)
    {
        $this->suffix = $suffix;
    }

    public function getSuffix()
    {
        return $suffix;
    }

}

$person = new Person();
$person->setPrefix("Mr.");
$person->setGivenName("John");

echo($person->getPrefix());
echo($person->getGivenName());

?>

I there a way in PHP (5.4 preferably), to combine these return values into one function, this way it models a little bit more like the revealing module pattern in JavaScript?

UPDATE:
OK, I am now beginning to learn that within PHP, it is normative to return a single value from a function, but you “can” return an array of multiple values. This is the ultimate answer to my question and what I will dive into some practices with this understanding.

small example –

function fruit () {
return [
 'a' => 'apple', 
 'b' => 'banana'
];
}
echo fruit()['b'];

Also an article I ran across on stackoverflow on the topic…
PHP: Is it possible to return multiple values from a function?

Good luck!

Answer 1

Perhaps

public function getAll() {
    return(array('prefix' => $this->prefix, 'givenName' => $this->giveName, etc...));
}