From: Barel <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 4, 2026 5:06 PM
To: PHP internals <[email protected]>
Subject: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Discussion] array_get and array_has functions
Hi,
I would like to open the discussion on my proposal to add two small, focused
array functions for retrieving and checking nested array elements using dot
notation.
This is the link to the RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/array_get_and_array_has
This is the link to the proposed implementation:
https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/21637
Thanks!!
Carlos
Hey,
Very useful functions!
Why did you decide to not handle keys with dots? It would prevent these
functions from being used in tools that might sometimes receive something like
`example.com`as the key. The similar userland functions that I’ve seen do at
least support the exact dotted key as well, even if not offering a full
dotted<->nested equivalence with priority rules, partial nested-dotted and
other fun stuff.
I’ve also found it quite useful to have `[‘user.name’ => ‘Alice’]` be
equivalent to `[‘user’ => [‘name’ => ‘Alice’]]` for testing/mocking more
complex structures.
BR,
Juris
