I added a little more functionality to the more popular answers here to support the $index_key parameter for PHP < 5.5

<?php
// for php < 5.5
if (!function_exists('array_column')) {
    function array_column($input, $column_key, $index_key = null) {
        $arr = array_map(function($d) use ($column_key, $index_key) {
            if (!isset($d[$column_key])) {
                return null;
            }
            if ($index_key !== null) {
                return array($d[$index_key] => $d[$column_key]);
            }
            return $d[$column_key];
        }, $input);

        if ($index_key !== null) {
            $tmp = array();
            foreach ($arr as $ar) {
                $tmp[key($ar)] = current($ar);
            }
            $arr = $tmp;
        }
        return $arr;
    }
}
?>