note 8983 modified in Function arguments by ronabop

if you compiled with "--enable-track-vars" then an easy way to get variable function args is to use extract(). $args = array("color" = "blue","number" = 3); function my_func($args){ extract($args); echo $color; echo $number; } the above strategy makes it real easy to globalize form data within functions, or to pass form data arrays to functions: <input type="text" name="test[color]" value="blue"> etc, etc. Then in your function, pass $test to extract() to turn the array data into global vars. or function my_func($HTTP_POST_VARS){ extract($HTTP_POST_VARS); // use all your vars by name! } http://www.php.net/manual/function-arguments.php