I find myself constantly writing if statements like the following:
if(isset($this->request->data['Parent']['child'])){
$new_var['child'] = $this->request->data['Parent']['child'];
}
My question is, without creating a new shorter variable before the if statement, is there a magic php process that will help avoid having to rewrite $this->request->data['Parent']['child'] in the body of the if statement? I also want to keep the code clean for any successor developers.
I am also not looking for a ternary solution.
Something a little more along the lines of jquery’s use of this. (That I know of) php doesn’t allow anonymous functions or it’s not common practice and I’m not saying I want a bunch of anonymous functions all over my classes either.
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Answer
This would be extremly cool, but unfortunaly nothing can do it.
Maybe some plugin for some IDE can help you doing stuff like that.
What I can suggest on this case is what I do personally, without touching mouse move cursor with the arrows near $this then hold CTRL + SHIFT and right arrow and you will be selecting more stuff at once. (Then just use ctrl+c and ctrl+v to copy paste)
Of course this applies to every languages, not only PHP