Can you do something crazy like this
function cool_function($pizza, $ice_cream) { make the arguments in the array into an array return $array_of_parama
If I got you right, you so it like this:
function cool_function($pizza, $ice_cream) { return array($pizza, $ice_cream); }
but you could simply do that:
$new_var = array($pizza, $ice_cream);