Posted by Jamie Meyers on 06/09/05 07:02

"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);

if you wrote myfunction, then declare it like this

function myfunction(arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5="", arg6="", arg7)...
Where "" should be set to the default values.

>
> ... 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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