Re: Using functions before they're defined

On Friday 08 February 2002 06:17, Martin Towell wrote: > I've found that you can specify a function anywhere in the page and call it > anywhere in the page so: > > <? > foobar(); > function foobar() { echo "in foobar<br>\n"; } > foobar(); > ?> > > would work and display the text twice, without errors/warnings > > I haven't looked at the php's source code, but maybe it's a two pass parser > (??) first it gets all the functions then it executes the code ???????? Yes, it's all explained in the manual :) -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk /* Charlie was a chemist, But Charlie is no more. For what he thought was H2O, Was H2SO4. */