In PHP there are multiple ways to get multiple return values in a "tuple-like" style. This GIST explores a few ways of doing so.

getting-tuple-like-params.php

<?php

function return_me_data_pls() {
    $params_to_return = array(
        'count' => range(1,10),
        'sum' => array_sum(range(1,10))
    );

    return $params_to_return;
}


// Manually
$returned = return_me_data_pls();
$count = $returned['count'];
$sum = $returned['sum'];

var_dump($count, $sum);
unset($returned, $count, $sum);

// Automatically
extract(return_me_data_pls());

var_dump($count, $sum);
unset($count, $sum);

// Listing
list($count, $sum) = array_values(return_me_data_pls());

var_dump($count, $sum);
unset($count, $sum);