Re: Calling Functions without all the arguments

If a function has not been defined to take optional arguments, then you *must* provide these arguments when you call the function. The fact that previous versions of PHP incorrectly let you do this was at best an undocumented misfeature, but more likely a bug. And yes, having optional arguments with the default value defined in the function definition is perfectly acceptable. -Rasmus On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Chris Aitken wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Hardy Merrill wrote: > > >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. > > > > This works great (thanks for that :). However my question now is, what is > the general opinion about how to handle this. > > Is it better to call functions giving all arguments values (even if its an > empty "" value) or is it fine to assign values from within the function as > described above ?