#32413 [NEW]: Array accessed method

From: barnaby dot scott at uk dot wanadoo dot com Operating system: N/A PHP version: Irrelevant PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: Array accessed method Description: ------------ I was just playing about with the array functions, and I feel that there is a missing behaviour. It would be a sort of shortcut to a for loop, the way that array_walk is a shortcut to looping through the array and performing an action on each element. My proposed shortcut function would replace this sort of code: for ( $i=0; $i < count( $array ); $i++ ) { $tmp = $array[ $i ]; $tmp->someFunc(); } With something like this: $array->someFunc(); Essentially treating the array as an object, obviously all of the elements in the array would have to implement the someFunc method, but then that could be taken care of with some type hinting. It's really just something that I thought would make my code a lot cleaner. Cheers Barney Reproduce code: --------------- (The sort of syntax that i was thinking of) interface ExampleInt { public function printVar(); } class Example implements ExampleInt { private $aVar; public function __construct( $val ) { $this->aVar = $val; } public function printVar() { print $this->aVar . '<br>'; } } $exArray = ExampleInt array(); $exArray[] = new Example( 'one' ); $exArray[] = new Example( 'two' ); $exArray[] = new Example( 'three' ); $exArray[] = new Example( 'four' ); $exArray[] = new Example( 'five' ); $exArray->printVar(); Expected result: ---------------- one two three four five -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=32413&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32413&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32413&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32413&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32413&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32413&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32413&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32413&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32413&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32413&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32413&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32413&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32413&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32413&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32413&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32413&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32413&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32413&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32413&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32413&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32413&r=mysqlcfg