[SOLVED] problem with agregate classes

[freenity]

Well actually I have 2 classes:

class a
{
private $bb = array();

public function __construct()
{
	for($i=0;$i<3;$i++)
		$this->bb[] = new b;		
}

public function getb()
{
	return $this->bb;
}
}


class b
{
public function hello()
{
	echo "hi";
}
}

 

the i do:

 

$aa = new a;

$aa->getb()[0]->hello();

 

and yes, it trows an error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in D:\XAMPP\xampp\htdocs\test\index.php on line 39

I know that I can just store the value in a variable and then use it to call the function, but isn't it possible to do this?

Thanks.

[emehrkay]

I am stumped. Like you said,

 

$x = $aa->getb();

$x[0]->hello();

 

works fine.

 

This is a strange one, maybe it has something to do with the order of execution.

 

What is the reason why you want to use this format instead of setting it to a variable?

[freenity]

The only reason of wanting to do this is simplicity Nothing important but I think this can be done in c++ so I thought it should work but..

[Daniel0]

Unfortunately, PHP does not support this syntax. There are sometime where I would have liked to do something similar, but it isn't possible.

[freenity]

Thanks for the reply.