Getting Variables from Arrays from Functions

[Yaggles]

I have the following code:
<?
function assign_vars($vars = array())
{
foreach($vars AS $var => $val)
{
echo $var . ' => ' . $val . '<BR />';
}
}
$variable = assign_vars(array('var1' => 'val1'));
?>
I am trying to be able to get $variable['var1'] to equal 'val1'. How could I do this?

Thanks,
-Yaggles

[delinear]

Well... based on your code example, you could do it like this:
function assign_vars($vars) {
return $vars;
}
$variable = assign_vars(array('var1' => 'val1'));
print_r($variable);

// results in:

// Array
// (
// [var1] => val1
// )

It's essentially exactly the same as doing:
$variable = array('var1' => 'val1');
Except the function wrapper will make the first example slower than the second.