This isn't planned for Engine 2 but you could use: list(,,,,$year) = localtime($time);
Andi At 03:17 20/04/2002 +0200, Markus Fischer wrote: > I've brought this up on the Zend Engine2 list a while ago. > The result was that it is not planned to support > dereferencing of arrays from e.g. return value on the fly. > > - Markus > >On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 07:26:26PM -0500, Derek Moore wrote : > > I've been playin' around with Horde and IMP lately... And I've done a > lot of > > PHP and Perl work in the past... One of the things I really like about > PHP is > > how it has most of the really cool features of Perl that I enjoy, but > lacks > > some of the things that annoy me about Perl. > > > > I was making some modifications to IMP's configurations when I tried to > use a > > feature of Perl that I thought for sure would have been carried over to > PHP. > > > > I'm not sure the exact vernacular to describe this feature, but Perl > allows > > you to anonymously use whatever was returned by a function--e.g., $year = > > (localtime($time))[5], so $year takes only the year value of the data > returned > > by localtime() instead of the entire array. > > > > In IMP I was trying to do: > > > > $conf['spam']['email'] = 'postmaster@' . (posix_uname())['nodename']; > > > > But instead I have to do: > > > > $uname = posix_uname(); > > $conf['spam']['email'] = 'postmaster@' . $uname['nodename']; > > > > > > I realize this is nitpicking a little bit, but being able to handle > returned > > values in such a manner is quite, quite useful. Or does PHP provide this > > functionality through some other syntax? > > > > Anyways, I just thought I'd say somethin' about it. Btw, please > reply-to-all, > > as I'm not subscribed to this list. > > > > Okay, I'm done now, > > > > Derek > > > > [ derek p. moore ]-------------------[ > http://hackunix.org/~derekm/pubkey.asc ] > > [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]----------------------------[ bfd2 fad6 1014 > 80c9 aaa8 ] > > [ http://hackunix.org/~derekm/ ]-------------------[ a4a0 f449 3461 > a443 51b9 ] > > > > -- > > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >-- >Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. >GnuPG Key: http://guru.josefine.at/~mfischer/C2272BD0.asc >"Mind if I MFH ?" "What QA did you do on it?" "the usual?" "ah... none :)" > >-- >PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
