Online PHP editor | output for l08eR

@ 2014-04-03T07:09:55Z

<?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. ...' => ['regions' => [1,2,34]]]);

echo rettype($array, 'object')->status; // prints "Figure A. ..."

Output for 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.28, 8.2.0 - 8.2.18, 8.3.0 - 8.3.6: Warning: Array to string conversion in /in/l08eR on line 22 Array
Output for 5.4.0 - 5.4.45, 5.5.0 - 5.5.38, 5.6.0 - 5.6.38, 7.0.0 - 7.0.33, 7.1.0 - 7.1.33, 7.2.0 - 7.2.33, 7.3.0 - 7.3.31, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33: Notice: Array to string conversion in /in/l08eR on line 22 Array
Output for 7.3.32 - 7.3.33: Array
Output for 4.4.2 - 4.4.9, 5.1.0 - 5.1.6, 5.2.0 - 5.2.17, 5.3.0 - 5.3.29: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in /in/l08eR on line 20
Process exited with code 255.
Output for 4.3.0 - 4.3.1, 4.3.5 - 4.3.11, 4.4.0 - 4.4.1, 5.0.0 - 5.0.5: Parse error: parse error, unexpected '[' in /in/l08eR on line 20
Process exited with code 255.
Output for 4.3.2 - 4.3.4: Parse error: parse error in /in/l08eR on line 20
Process exited with code 255.

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