Is there a nice clean way to unset from an array but return that unset value?

Question

Something like the would be nice:

$name = unset($array['username']);

Leaving $array without a username but assigned to $name.

I'm just looking for the least complex way of doing this really.

Answer 1

unset has void as return type.

void unset ( mixed $var [, mixed $... ] )

You can do it like this:

$name = $array['username'];
unset($array['username']);