temporary arrays as inline lists for selection

is there a shorthand I can use to help code flow

[amznVibe]

I am wondering if it is possible to do some kind of shorthand I can use to make PHP allow a temporary array without extra code to asign a string and select it.

example: (longhand I am trying to avoid)

$fruits=array("apples","pears","oranges","bananas");
$fruitSelection=1;
echo $fruits[$fruitSelection];

is there some way to do a shorthand like this?

echo array("apples","pears","oranges","bananas")[1];

Thanks for any help!

[coopster]

echo "pears";

hehe. Sorry, couldn't resist.

To the best of my knowledge, no, well, not without jumping through hoops first. The point I am making here is that you already know which one you want, why go through the necessary steps to build the array? OK, I guess you could argue that it is all dynamic...Well, here is one example of jumping through the hoops

echo (array_pop(array_slice(array("apples","pears","oranges","bananas"), 1, 1)));

[amznVibe]

Ah thanks for the attempt. Apparently there is no simple way to immediately treat an array as an element itself.

In the end I figured I'll just build a simple function to take the raw array and return the string so I don't have to repeat all that code.

[m_shroom]

$fruits[]="apples";
$fruits[]="pears";
$fruits[]="oranges";
$fruits[]="bananas";
$n=0;
while ($n<4)
{echo $fruits[$n]; $n++; }