note 59778 added to function.is-callable

I have come across a strange oddity in versions around the 4.3.11 mark - I may have missunderstood the purpose of this function but hope this'll be helpful for some. The point the code below is supposed to illustrate is that in some cases with <? $myFunc = Array( $myObj, 'myMethod' ); ?> <? is_callable( $myFunc, true, $callMe ); ?> will return true, and give you $callMe set to myObj::myMethod but calling <? $callMe(); ?> doesn't work... however calling <? $myFunc[0]->$myFunc[1](); ?> seems to work fine.. ... the reason all the code is down there is I think this oddity is due to how/the order in which I've instantiated my classes or something... anyhow... HTH someone! :-) Code follows: FILE 1 : <? include('myTools'); $foo = new myClass(); print $foo->getMySource(); class myClass{ var $flibble = 'wibble'; function myClass( // Initialise loads of stuff.. including.. $this->tools = new myTools(); ) function getMySource(){ // This just returns the source.. ok, like some HTML to go into an email for example. // Some arguments; $args = $this->flibble; // Call our Tool that returns the source.. $source = $this->tools->returnSource( Array ( $this, 'someHTML' ), $args ); // and return it.. return ( $source ); } function someHTML($args){ // Leave PHP ?> Here is some HTML.. that we want to build outside a PHP block, possibly just cos it's tidier in <B>your favourite text editor</B>.. .. or you want this function to be elsewhere.. for your designers to play with etc.. ... incidentally I'd like to say "<?=$args?>" etc. <? // .. and we're back. } } ?> FILE 2: <? /* OK - this is some other big library and a whole load more faff but this is the particular function in question... it just calls the function it's been asked to and uses an output buffer to grab the output and return it as a string rather than letting it go to terminal/browser.... useful for grabbing PHP pages for spidering, emailing etc. etc. etc.. */ class myTools(){ function returnSource($func, $args){ if ( is_callable ( $func, true, $callMe ){ // Start a buffer ob_start(); // Calling the function like this DOESN'T seem to work: // ~~~~~~~~ // "Command not found : myClass::someHTML" // $callMe($args); // ~~~~~~~~ // But - what I've discovered is that this behaves fine.. if ( is_array($func) ){ $func[0]->$func[1]($args); } else { $func($args); } // Then we just carry on with our code.. $rtn = ob_get_contents(); ob_clean(); return ( $rtn ); } else { error_log("Doh!"); } } } ?> ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.is-callable.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+59778 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59778&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59778&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59778&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59778&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59778&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59778&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59778&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+59778&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php