any idea how if the following is possible in PHP as a single line ?:
... It doesn
I am guessing that this is a built-in or library function, since it sounds like you cannot edit it directly. I recommend creating a wrapper function to give you the output you need:
function functionThatReturnsOneElement( $arg )
{
$result = functionThatReturnsAnArray( $arg );
return $result[0];
}
$firstElement = functionThatReturnsOneElement();