Posted by Aidan on 06/09/05 05:17

My suggestion would be to reorganise the order in which the function takes
it arguments. Simply change it so that the 7th argument is the 5th, and the
5th and 6th argumentss become the 6th and 7th.

That's what I'd do at least. HTH


"Chuck Anderson" <websiteaddress@seemy.sig> wrote in message
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>I have a function with 7 inputs. The last three have default values.
>
> I want to call that function specifying the first four, skip two and then
> specify the last.
>
> I thought I could write this as :
>
> $retval = myfunction(arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4,,,arg7);
>
> ... but Php does not seem to want to let me do this. I get a parse error
> until I supply values for the 5th and 6th arguments.
>
> My question is simply this; is skipping arguments like that not allowed in
> Php?
>
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