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XXXIV. Function Handling functions

Introduzione

These functions all handle various operations involved in working with functions.

Requisiti

Queste funzioni sono disponibili nei moduli standard, che sono sempre disponibili.

Istallazione

Non ` necessaria nessuna installazione per usare queste funzioni, esse fanno parte del core di PHP.

Configurazione Runtime

Questa estensione non definisce alcuna direttiva di configurazione

Costanti Predefinite

Questa estensione non definisce alcuna costante.

Sommario
call_user_func_array --  Call a user function given with an array of parameters
call_user_func --  Call a user function given by the first parameter
create_function -- Create an anonymous (lambda-style) function
func_get_arg -- Return an item from the argument list
func_get_args --  Returns an array comprising a function's argument list
func_num_args --  Returns the number of arguments passed to the function
function_exists --  Return TRUE if the given function has been defined
get_defined_functions --  Returns an array of all defined functions
register_shutdown_function --  Register a function for execution on shutdown
register_tick_function --  Register a function for execution on each tick
unregister_tick_function --  De-register a function for execution on each tick
User Contributed Notes
Function Handling functions
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23-Aug-2002 09:49

You can do some kind of overloading functions in PHP using "function_exists".

Let's suppose you want a script to call plugins that are php files and you want the plugins to "override" behaviours that if not overriden are used by default.

You might for example write a "mySQL table viewer" which displays a table and it "opens a table", "dumps the header", "dumps row-by-row" and then "closes the table".

Let's suppose you want a plugin for "Stocks" which prints negative stocks in red, so you want to override the "dumping row-by-row" to do that behaviour. Instead you do not want to have all the "default behaviour" repeated in the plugin.

You may then do the following:

1) Define a default plugin (ex: "default.php"

2) Write all your functions in default.php to open, dump and close, but add them a suffix:

open_table_default()
dump_header_default()
dump_row_default()
close_table_default()

3) Call your functions with a wrapper: Insetad of this:
open_table() or open_table_default() write this:

plugincall("open_table");

4) Then write a function called plugincall which uses function_exists() to see if you call one or the other function:

function plugincall($desired_function_name)
{

if( function_exists( $desired_function_name))
{
//Call the plugin
//Note the $ before the name
$desired_function_name()
}
else
{
$desired_function_name = $desired_function_name . "_default";
if( function_exists($desired_function_name))
{
//Call the default
//Note the $ before the name
$desired_function_name()
}
else
{
// Nor the plugin nor the default were defined
}
}

So, now, if the require_once(plugin.php) contains a function called "open_table()", it will be used. Instaed, "open_table_default()" will be used.

It's not like overloading functions, but it is very useful to write scripts ampliable by other programmers: If they write a function, it is used, if not, the default is used.

See ya!
Xavier Montero.

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