echoing a string from a hash returned by an object?

[screative]

in my code this will echo a value out of my hash returned by the $cgiParams object.

$myhash = $cgiParams->getParams();

echo $myhash['PHP_SELF'];

Is there anyway I can pull out the value from the hash with out first setting the $myhash variable?

Something like this:

echo $cgiParams->getParams->PHP_SELF;

Thanks!

[NogDog]

Off-hand I do not know of a way. I would either add a method that gets the value by key, or add an optional argument to your current method which, if present, just returns that value instead of the whole array.

[shawty]

Indeed,

Somthing like:

function getParams($field = "")
{
  if(!isset($field) || ($field == ""))
  {
    return $arrayname;
  }
  else
  {
    return $arrayname[$field];
  }
}

Should do the trick. (Remember to change the array and variable names as appropriate)