Posted by Jason Barnett on 01/13/05 17:25

M. Sokolewicz wrote:
> Justin French wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Pretty sure this can't be done, but thought I'd ask any way...
>>
>> I have a function where the 3rd argument is an array..
>>
>> function foo($a,$b,$c) {
>> echo $a.$b;
>> print_r($c);
>> }
>>
>> Obviously the function does more than that, but anyway, I want the
>> calls to this function to look a little cleaner than this:
>>
>> foo("cat","dog",array("a"=>"1","b"=>"2","c"=>"3"));

Well you can always store the array in a variable and just pass the
variable to the function as the third parameter. At least it would look
prettier.

$vars = array("a"=>"1","b"=>"2","c"=>"3");
foo("cat","dog",$vars);

>>
>> is there any other way to define the array?
>>
>> foo("cat","dog",("a"=>"1","b"=>"2","c"=>"3")); or
>> foo("cat","dog",{"a"=>"1","b"=>"2","c"=>"3"}); would be nice (Ruby has
>> something like this), but I'm guessing it's not possible.
>
> nope, that's the only way
>

Well... I suppose that you could create an object and then treat the
object like an array (i.e. PHP5), but I doubt you want to do this unless
you have a specific purpose for using the object in this way.

>>
>> But, I'm asking just in case I've missed it in the docs.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> ---
>> Justin French, Indent.com.au
>> justin.french@indent.com.au
>> Web Application Development & Graphic Design


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