php-doc-en/reference/array/functions/compact.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
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<refentry id="function.compact">
<refnamediv>
<refname>compact</refname>
<refpurpose>
Create array containing variables and their values
</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>array</type><methodname>compact</methodname>
<methodparam><type>mixed</type><parameter>varname</parameter></methodparam>
<methodparam choice="opt"><type>mixed</type><parameter>...</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
<function>compact</function> takes a variable number of
parameters. Each parameter can be either a string containing the
name of the variable, or an array of variable names. The array
can contain other arrays of variable names inside it;
<function>compact</function> handles it recursively.
</para>
<para>
For each of these, <function>compact</function> looks for a
variable with that name in the current symbol table and adds it
to the output array such that the variable name becomes the key
and the contents of the variable become the value for that key.
In short, it does the opposite of <function>extract</function>.
It returns the output array with all the variables added to it.
</para>
<para>
Any strings that are not set will simply be skipped.
</para>
<para>
<example>
<title><function>compact</function> example</title>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$city = "San Francisco";
$state = "CA";
$event = "SIGGRAPH";
$location_vars = array ("city", "state");
$result = compact ("event", "nothing_here", $location_vars);
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
<para>
After this, <varname>$result</varname> will be:
</para>
<screen role="php">
<![CDATA[
Array
(
[event] => SIGGRAPH
[city] => San Francisco
[state] => CA
)
]]>
</screen>
</example>
</para>
<para>
See also <function>extract</function>.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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