Colon after method declaration?

php php-7
Vikast picture Vikast · Oct 31, 2016 · Viewed 13.4k times · Source 
public function getRecords(int $id): array;

Hi, can someone tell me what colon is doing here, in this method declaration inside PHP interface? Is this PHP 7 syntax and what array is meaning here? Method must return array or something else?

Answer

fire picture fire · Oct 31, 2016

Yes it's new syntax introduced in PHP 7 to declare the method returns an array.

http://php.net/manual/en/functions.returning-values.php#functions.returning-values.type-declaration

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