how can I make this code more efficient / dynamic so if I need to pass more arguments it's dynamic?
Because now at this point it is a bit of a mess and I like that my code is clean and simpel :)
protected function getSettings()
{
$args = func_get_args();
switch (func_num_args()) {
case 1:
$set = (isset($this->settings[ $args[0] ]))
? $this->settings[ $args[0] ]
: array();
break;
case 2:
$set = (isset($this->settings[ $args[0] ][ $args[1] ]))
? $this->settings[ $args[0] ][ $args[1] ]
: array();
break;
case 3:
$set = (isset($this->settings[ $args[0] ][ $args[1] ][ $args[2] ]))
? $this->settings[ $args[0] ][ $args[1] ][ $args[2] ]
: array();
break;
case 4:
$set = (isset($this->settings[ $args[0] ][ $args[1] ][ $args[2] ][ $args[3] ]))
? $this->settings[ $args[0] ][ $args[1] ][ $args[2] ][ $args[3] ]
: array();
break;
case 5:
$set = (isset($this->settings[ $args[0] ][ $args[1] ][ $args[2] ][ $args[3] ][ $args[4] ]))
? $this->settings[ $args[0] ][ $args[1] ][ $args[2] ][ $args[3] ][ $args[4] ]
: array();
break;
default:
$set = $this->settings;
break;
}
return $set;
}