PHP: Can I reference a single member of an array that is returned by a function?

Question

any idea how if the following is possible in PHP as a single line ?:

... It doesn

Answer 1

list() is useful here. With any but the first array element, you'll need to pad it with useless variables. For example:

list( $firstElement ) = functionThatReturnsAnArray();
list( $firstElement , $secondElement ) = functionThatReturnsAnArray();

And so on.