I have this script:

<?
// Load configuration
@((int)require('config.php')) or die('!Unable to load server configuration file.');

// Connect to db
$dbhandle = mysql_connect($dbserver, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die('!Unable to connect to MySQL server.');
mysql_select_db($dbname) or die('!Unable to select Garnet database.');

$variable = $_GET['variable'];
$result = mysql_query("SELECT value FROM settings WHERE variable=$variable");
if (!$result)
{
	echo '!Failed to get variable value';
}
else
{
	echo mysql_fetch_row($result)[0];
}

mysql_close($dbhandle);
?>

It appears to work perfectly fine except for line 17: "echo mysql_fetch_row($result)[0];". In every other language I've used this is perfectly acceptable: return the first element of the array returned by mysql_fetch_row($result). However I get this error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '[', expecting ',' or ';' in page.php on line 17

Is the only workaround to do this?

$s = mysql_fetch_row($result);
echo $s[0];