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Name

compact — Creates an array containing variables from the current scope.

Synopsis

array compact(var_name[, . . .]); mixed var_name: Variable name or array of variable names mixed . . . (optional): Further variable names or arrays of variable names

Returns

Associative array

Description

This function performs the opposite job of extract() . Given one or more variable names, it places each named variable into an associative array, with the key of each element being the name of a variable from the current scope and the value of each element being the value of that variable. The array thus constructed is then returned.

Each parameter can be either a string giving the name of a variable to place into the array, or an array of variable names. Arrays can be nested as deeply as you like; compact() recurses over them.

Variables are skipped if they are not set within the scope in which compact() is called.

Version

PHP 4

Example

Example 41. Place variables from the current scope into an array

$foo = 'This is foo';
$bar = 'This is bar';
function compact_tester() {
   global $foo;

   $quux = 'This is quux';

   $new_array = compact('foo', 'bar', array('quux'));
   return $new_array;
}

$array = compact_tester();
print_r($array);

Output:Array
(
    [foo] => This is foo
    [quux] => This is quux
)

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