为什么没有附加PHP数组？

Question

This question is concerning the final state of variable $message_to_user

Consider the following simplified function:

function myArrayFunction()
{
    $message_to_user = array();

    $message_to_user[] = array('A Success Message', true);
    $message_to_user[] = array('An Error Message', false);

    echo $message_to_user;
    return $message_to_user;
}

Notice that I echo the array before returning it for troubleshooting and always get Array as the output.

Question

Why isn't the array getting appended with this syntax?

Thank you in advance for your time.

Answer 1

It is, you can't just echo an array like that. It will simply tell you "Hey bud, I'm an array."

Try using var_dump($message_to_user) or print_r($message_to_user)