Access an Array Returned by a Function [duplicate]

Answer 1

Unfortunately, no.

You could do something like this:

function getData($id) {
    // mysql query
    return mysql_fetch_array($result);
}

foreach(getData("your_input_query") as $key=>$value){
   echo $value;
}

And then you could use a switch or if/else statements to only perform other functions on the returned data if they equal a certain value (in this case, if $key == 'name').

In short, it's much easier just to set that temporary variable and access it that way.