Posted by Chuck Anderson on 06/09/05 05:30

Aidan wrote:

>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.
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>That's what I'd do at least. HTH
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Well, yes, that would work. I can even supply the 5th and 6th arguments
in this case, but I was wondering if that really is something that Php
does not allow (the ,,, - method of skipping arguments) or if I need to
look closer for another parse error.

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>"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.
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>>I want to call that function specifying the first four, skip two and then
>>specify the last.
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>>I thought I could write this as :
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>>$retval = myfunction(arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4,,,arg7);
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>>... 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.
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>>My question is simply this; is skipping arguments like that not allowed in
>>Php?
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>>Chuck Anderson . Boulder, CO
>>http://www.CycleTourist.com
>>Integrity is obvious.
>>The lack of it is common.
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Chuck Anderson • Boulder, CO
http://www.CycleTourist.com
Integrity is obvious.
The lack of it is common.
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