From: technophreak at gammae dot com
Operating system: all
PHP version: 4.3.2
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: array_element function.
Description:
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There should be a function used to simply return element [n] of an array.
This will allow to return the value of an array by simply specifying the
key or element to be returned. list() or any other function can do this.
if a such function alredy exist please let me know. I didnt find it.
Reproduce code:
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Sample code of what function should do.
function array_element($array array,$element mixed){
return $array[$element];
}
here is an example of why that would be useful.
If i dont want to write two lines to get a hostname from a url.
$myhost = array_element(parse_url($someurl),"host");
INSTEAD OF
$host_info = parse_url($someurl);
$myhost = $host_info["host"];
Also.. there are many things that the list() function cannot do ... an
array_element() function would be very useful in any situation where the
array would be the result of another function ..
There are numerous examples where I would have used that and I am sure
that a lot of people would be looking for suck feature.
Same idea for an array_put() function but array_merge() does the same.
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