How can the concept of return in PHP functions be better understood and utilized to pass multiple variables effectively?

When returning values from a PHP function, you can only return a single value. To pass multiple variables effectively, you can return an array or an object containing all the variables you want to pass. This way, you can easily access all the variables by indexing the returned array or object. 

// Example of returning multiple variables from a PHP function
function getMultipleVariables() {
    $var1 = 'Hello';
    $var2 = 'World';
    
    return array($var1, $var2);
}

// Calling the function and accessing the returned variables
$multipleVars = getMultipleVariables();
$var1 = $multipleVars[0];
$var2 = $multipleVars[1];

echo $var1 . ' ' . $var2; // Output: Hello World

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