foreach without doing a loop in PHP

Question

How is it possible to perform a foreach function without doing a loop for example

foreach($result['orders'] as $order) {

But I don't want to do a foreach I want something like

$result['orders'] == $order;

Or something like that instead of doing it inside an loop because $result['orders'] is only returning 1 result anyway so I don't see the point in doing it in a loop.

Thank you

I'm trying to get information from an API which is stored inside $result['orders'] so you could say it's an array, but i don't want to do a foreach to be able to get the content — Curtis Crewe, Jan 26 '13 at 23:36
@CurtisCrewe There would be lots of ways to get at the data inside, but without seeing the structure of the array we can't say what is the best method. — Michael Berkowski, Jan 26 '13 at 23:37
possible duplicate of [Get value without knowing key in one-pair-associative-aray](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11145185/get-value-without-knowing-key-in-one-pair-associative-aray) — nickb, Jan 26 '13 at 23:38

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 26 '13 at 23:36

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You can get the first (and apparently only) element in the array with any array function that gets an element from the array, e.g. array_pop() or array_shift():

$order = array_shift( $result['orders']);

Or list():

list( $order) = $result['orders'];

Or, if you know it's numerically indexed, access it directly:

$order = $results['orders'][0];

answered Jan 26 '13 at 23:36

nickb

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Thank you very much nick, i appreciate you taking your time to find 3 different ways. – Curtis Crewe Jan 26 '13 at 23:39
@Curtis - There are actually a lot more, I linked a similar question, you will get a laugh from how many ways this is possible in PHP (I know I did...) – nickb Jan 26 '13 at 23:40

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 26 '13 at 23:37

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Are you maybe just looking for this?

$result['orders'] = $result['orders'][0];

answered Jan 26 '13 at 23:37

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 26 '13 at 23:37

You have a comparison operator (==) rather than an assignment operator (=) in your second code example. If you are just trying to set a variable equal to a position in an array, you can use:

$order = $results['orders'];

I am not sure if that is what you are trying to accomplish though.

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