Can I get the value from an assoc array that is returned by a function...in one statement?

[lwoods]

I want to be able to get the present year in one statement. I know that I
can do it this way:

$y = getdate();
echo 'year='.$y['year'];

But, I want to do something like:

echo 'year='.getdate()['year']; # BAD, I know

Ideas?

TIA,

Larry Woods

[Ewoud Dronkert]

lwoods wrote:

I want to be able to get the present year in one statement.

http://php.net/date

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E. Dronkert

[NC]

lwoods wrote:

I want to be able to get the present year in one statement. I know that I
can do it this way:

$y = getdate();
echo 'year='.$y['year'];

But, I want to do something like:

echo 'year='.getdate()['year']; # BAD, I know

There's no need to use getdate() if all you want is year. Consider
this:

echo date('Y');

Cheers,
NC

[Pedro Graca]

lwoods wrote:

I want to be able to get the present year in one statement. I know that I
can do it this way:

$y = getdate();
echo 'year='.$y['year'];

But, I want to do something like:

echo 'year='.getdate()['year']; # BAD, I know

Ideas?

echo 'year=', date('Y');
If your problem is what you used for the subject
Can I get the value from an assoc array that is returned by a
function...in one statement?
then there's a lovely solution proposed by ... searching ...
.... Robin Goodall on a similar problem I posted a long way back.

<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.php/browse_thread/thread/96568bc7c66ad4a/ce59a0c7758992b9>
which I shortened to <http://shorterlink.com/?S9KW1T>

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[lwoods]

Thanks, all....

I'll follow up on the Goodall solution, Pedro.

Larry

"Pedro Graca" <he****@dodgeit.com> wrote in message
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lwoods wrote:

I want to be able to get the present year in one statement. I know that
I
can do it this way:

$y = getdate();
echo 'year='.$y['year'];

But, I want to do something like:

echo 'year='.getdate()['year']; # BAD, I know

Ideas?

echo 'year=', date('Y');
If your problem is what you used for the subject
Can I get the value from an assoc array that is returned by a
function...in one statement?
then there's a lovely solution proposed by ... searching ...
... Robin Goodall on a similar problem I posted a long way back.

<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.php/browse_thread/thread/96568bc7c66ad4a/ce59a0c7758992b9>
which I shortened to <http://shorterlink.com/?S9KW1T>

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[lwoods]

Thanks

Larry

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lwoods wrote:

I want to be able to get the present year in one statement.

http://php.net/date

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E. Dronkert

[lwoods]

Thanks

Larry
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lwoods wrote:

I want to be able to get the present year in one statement. I know that
I
can do it this way:

$y = getdate();
echo 'year='.$y['year'];

But, I want to do something like:

echo 'year='.getdate()['year']; # BAD, I know

There's no need to use getdate() if all you want is year. Consider
this:

echo date('Y');

Cheers,
NC