Bug #17969 Updated: Immediately getting an array element fails with a function

ID: 17969 Updated by: cynic@php.net Reported By: atalabac@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov -Status: Open +Status: Won't fix -Bug Type: Unknown/Other Function +Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Windows 2000 PHP Version: 4.2.1 New Comment: this has been requested more than once; I wrote one of the feature requests; and the outcome was that PHP won't support this syntax. closing Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-25 09:31:05] atalabac@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov I have this script: <? // Load configuration @((int)require('config.php')) or die('!Unable to load server configuration file.'); // Connect to db $dbhandle = mysql_connect($dbserver, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die('!Unable to connect to MySQL server.'); mysql_select_db($dbname) or die('!Unable to select Garnet database.'); $variable = $_GET['variable']; $result = mysql_query("SELECT value FROM settings WHERE variable=$variable"); if (!$result) { echo '!Failed to get variable value'; } else { echo mysql_fetch_row($result)[0]; } mysql_close($dbhandle); ?> It appears to work perfectly fine except for line 17: "echo mysql_fetch_row($result)[0];". In every other language I've used this is perfectly acceptable: return the first element of the array returned by mysql_fetch_row($result). However I get this error: Parse error: parse error, unexpected '[', expecting ',' or ';' in page.php on line 17 Is the only workaround to do this? $s = mysql_fetch_row($result); echo $s[0]; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17969&edit=1