perl style in php ?

From: crub (crub_at_volcanomail.com)
Date: 10/31/04 

Date: 31 Oct 2004 07:59:49 -0800

Often I just want to be able to get at a single element from a
function that returns an array. For example, if I just want the
current year I need to write:

    $today = getdate();
    $year = $today['year'];

Call me lazy but this is two steps to return a single value.
In perl I can nest these two step together into something like:

     $year = ( $getdate() )['year'];

I've tried to get several variations of this to work in php but I
don't seem to be having any luck.

Is this style possible in php?

Thanks,
crub

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