compact()¶

compact() is a native PHP function, which creates an array containing variables and their values, from a list of variable names.

It is the opposite of extract().

<?php

    $a = '1';
    $b = '2';

    $array = compact('a', 'b');
    // ['a' => 1, 'b' => 2];

?>

See also `compact() function in PHP, and why it is problematic due to its magic behavior <https://gist.github.com/Ocramius/c56a8e8ff25a8e0bd96800c41edab02a>`_.