[RESOLVED] Invoking functions in returned objects, a neater method?

[SlappyTheFish]

I am trying to invoke a function of an object that is returned by running another function.

Here is my code:

$object = $this->OM->searchChildren('title');
$this->title        = $object[0]->collateCharacterData(); 

This works, but is there a neater way to do this in one line? I have tried the following, but it doesn't work:

$this->title = $this->OM->searchChildren('title')[0]->collateCharacterData(); 

Any suggestions?!

[chazzy]

no, that won't work.

you can have searchChildren return a "ListOf" type of object, and use something like

$this->title=$this->OM->searchChildren('title').get(0)->collateCharacterData();

But note that this makes your code very hard to read.

[NogDog]

Yeah, I don't think you gain anything by making it a one-liner, unless you're trying to obfuscate things so no one else can modify the code.

[SlappyTheFish]

Thanks for the replies - I think you're right though, it does make it rather hard to read. I was really just trying to represent the relational hierarchy in the code but I don't think it really works!