Posted by joshua may on 12/18/05 23:25

Labunski wrote:
> "PHP does not support function overloading."
> So, is there any other way of getting a number of parameters(variables)
> passed to a function?
>
> aka.
> function fruits($apple, $banana, $kiwi, $grape){
>
> #should (somehow) output 4
>
> }
>
> OK. if it was an array, than I could use count($array), but now I'm stuck!
>
> Thanks in advance!

func_num_args() will do the trick.

and then you use func_get_arg() or func_get_args() to use them.

http://au2.php.net/func_num_args

--josh

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