#23439 [WFx]: Allow default values to be passed for functions

ID: 23439 User updated by: steveh at brendata dot co dot uk Reported By: steveh at brendata dot co dot uk Status: Wont fix Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: linux 2.4.20 PHP Version: 4.3.1 New Comment: Although your suggestion is appropriate for new code upgrading old libraries and then all the code that calls them makes it impractible for updates to existing code? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-05-01 09:45:53] derick@php.net This was submitted before and respectfully declined. If you want to use something like this, you can either use an array based approach or use func_get_args(). Derick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-05-01 09:38:54] steveh at brendata dot co dot uk It would be useful to be able to omit function arguments and have the function still use the defaults even though some to the right were passed: e.g. function fred ($a,$b=1,$c=2,$d=3) { echo "a=$a,b=$b,c=$c,d=$d"; } fred(-1); fred(-1,,4,5); ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=23439&edit=1