Thursday, 3 May, 2018 UTC
Summary
Being more focussed on JavaScript nowadays, I kinda forgot that it’s possible to destructure arrays in PHP ever since the release of PHP 7.1. Frank de Jonge provides us with some practical examples such as this simple one:
// JavaScript
let options = {enabled: true, compression: 'gzip'};
let { enabled, compression } = options;
console.log(enabled);
console.log(compression);// PHP 7.1+
$options = ['enabled' => true, 'compression' => 'gzip'];
['enabled' => $enabled, 'compression' => $compression] = $options;
var_dump($enabled);
var_dump($compression);Freek Van der Herten adds some extra examples, showing its use in
for loops:$members = [
[1, 'Seb'],
[2, 'Alex'],
[3, 'Brent'],
];
foreach ($members as [$id, $name]) {
// do stuff with $id and $name
}Array destructuring in PHP →
Array destructuring in PHP (Additions by Freek) →
Array destructuring in PHP (Additions by Freek) →