Get the value of the returned array

Question

How can I write this code in one php statement?

$menu = theme('nice_menu', 1, 10, 'down');
print $menu['content'];

Something like that:

print theme('nice_menu', 1, 10, 'down')['content'];

Answer 1

Not on a production version of PHP. This is added to the trunk for the next version (currently called 5.3.99DEV, but she doesn’t know if it will be 5.4 or 6.0 or what) ... This is called Array dereferencing. See RFP ...

Answer 2

This, unfortunately, is not possible (in the current state of PHP). Your first example is a way to do this.