<?php
/**
* @author: hakre <http://hakre.wordpress.com>
* @link http://stackoverflow.com/a/17628617/367456
*/
/**
* dereference a value and optionally setting its type
*
* @param mixed $mixed
* @param null $type (optional)
*
* @return mixed $mixed set as $type
*/
function rettype($mixed, $type = NULL) {
$type === NULL || settype($mixed, $type);
return $mixed;
}
$array = Array('status' => 'Figure A. ...');
echo rettype($array, 'object')->status; // prints "Figure A. ..."
- Output for 5.3.0 - 5.3.29, 5.4.0 - 5.4.45, 5.5.0 - 5.5.38, 5.6.0 - 5.6.40, 7.0.0 - 7.0.33, 7.1.0 - 7.1.33, 7.2.0 - 7.2.34, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.30, 8.2.0 - 8.2.25, 8.3.0 - 8.3.13
- Figure A. ...
preferences:
68.52 ms | 408 KiB | 5 Q