Short syntax for array in PHP

[Sebastian Deutsch]

Hello,

is there a shorter syntax for array beside array("one", "two"),
something link {"one", "two"}?

cheers

sebastian

[ZeldorBlat]

Re: Short syntax for array in PHP

On Jul 11, 9:46 am, Sebastian Deutsch <spam...@9eleme nts.comwrote:

Hello,
>
is there a shorter syntax for array beside array("one", "two"),
something link {"one", "two"}?
>
cheers
>
sebastian

Not that I know of.

What's wrong with the array("one", "two") syntax? Your proposed { }
syntax is only shorted by the word "array" -- and the more items you
have in the array the less significant it becomes.

[ZeldorBlat]

Re: Short syntax for array in PHP

On Jul 11, 9:46 am, Sebastian Deutsch <spam...@9eleme nts.comwrote:

Hello,
>
is there a shorter syntax for array beside array("one", "two"),
something link {"one", "two"}?
>
cheers
>
sebastian

Actually, now that I thought about it more, you could write a function
and shorten it to a single character. So something like this:

function a() {
$arr = func_get_args() ;
return $arr;
}

$anArray = a('one', 'two');

Of course you can't assign keys that way, though.

[David T. Ashley]

Re: Short syntax for array in PHP

"Sebastian Deutsch" <spamboy@9eleme nts.comwrote in message
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>
is there a shorter syntax for array beside array("one", "two"),
something link {"one", "two"}?

The only other syntax I'm aware of that may save you some typing is the
automatic assignment of subscripts, i.e.

$a[] = "I'm"; //$a[0] = "I'm"
$a[] = "the"; //$a[1] = "the"

Etc.

But as far as the "array" keyword ... no meaningful shortcut I'm aware of.

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