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Subject:  Re: [PHP-DEV] Yet another feature request
From: pmuellr@yahoo.com (Patrick Mueller)

Arnold Daniels wrote:
> I see this is the time to do language feature request. So let me add 
> another. I very often use something like:
> /$a = isset($x['abc']) ? //$x['abc'] : null;
> /This is to prevent an E_NOTICE from being thrown.

It seems to me like adding a function:

    mixed array_get(mixed key, array search [, mixed default_value])

The implementation being:

    // constraint checking here
    if (array_key_exists($key,$search) return $search[$key];
    return $default_value;

would be the way to go.  A functional way to do array access (I don't 
see another way to do this, actually), and also allow a default value if 
  the specified key doesn't exit.

Very similiar to the getProperty() method in Java's Properties class.

-- 
Patrick_Mueller@us.ibm.com
IBM PHP Community Architect, IBM Research Triangle Park