Question: any idea how if the following is possible in PHP as a single line ?:

```
<?php
$firstElement = functionThatReturnsAnArray()[0];

```

... It doesn't seem to 'take'. I need to do this as a 2-stepper:

```
<?php
$allElements = functionThatReturnsAnArray();
$firstElement = $allElements[0];

```

... just curious - other languages I play with allow things like this, and I'm lazy enoug to miss this in PHP ... any insight appreciated ...

Answer: 
@Scott Reynen

that's not true. This will work:

```
list(,,$thirdElement) = $myArray;

```
```
$firstItem = current(returnsArray());

```