Re: Calling Functions without all the arguments

Chris Aitken [chris@ideal.net.au] wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Chris Aitken wrote: > > >--------------------------------------- > > > >Warning: Missing argument 2 for stripe() in /location/to/included/file.php on line 257 > >Warning: Missing argument 3 for stripe() in /location/to/included/file.php on line 257 > > > >--------------------------------------- > > > > Okay, ive managed to do some more playing, and come up with some more > info. > > The above error only shows up when I have a function being called without > all the arguments filled in. For example, if I have a function as > "function blah($foo,$bar)" and call the function with both $foo and $bar > set, it will run just fine. But if I call it with only $foo it comes up > with these errors. > > The thing is, the previous version of PHP must have alowed me to call > functions without all the arguments and it never batted an eyelid or gave > an error. > > My question is, is there something I didnt compile into the new PHP, or is > there a line in php.ini file I need to modify so that it doesnt show these > errors up (or should I adjust my code so that I dont call functions > without all the arguments) ? I found the same problem - when we upgraded to PHP4, function calls that used to work and NOT provide all the parameters, started failing. The way I fixed it was to give each parameter a default value *IN* the function definition, like: function abc($a='', $b='') // assigns null as parameter defaults that way, every parameter gets a value, even if all the parameters were not supplied in the call. HTH. -- Hardy Merrill Mission Critical Linux, Inc. http://www.missioncriticallinux.com