PHP Mulidimentional Array Short Syntax
New to PHP 5.4 comes a new method of assigning arrays. In particular, multi-dimensional arrays. Previously to assign a multi-dimensional array this type of code was required
<?php
$array = array( 1, 2, 3, array("fruit"=>"orange", "color"=>"blue", "type"=>"navel" ) );
print_r( $array );
?>
New to PHP 5.4 a shortcut has been provided to ease some of the perceived pain of this...
<?php
// array with shortcut syntax
$array = array[1, 2, 3, ["fruit"=>"orange", "color"=>"blue", "type"=>"navel"]];
print_r( $array );
?>