The document discusses PHP 5.3 and how array dereferencing syntax like explode(',', 'foo,bar,baz')[1] is not supported and will cause a parse error. It shows how to get the second element of the exploded array in PHP 5.3 using a multi-line approach by assigning the result of explode to a variable first before accessing the element. Later it is demonstrated that this syntax is supported in PHP 5.4 and higher. It also discusses patching the PHP source code to add support for this syntax in older versions.