note 58331 added to functions.arguments

PASSING A "VARIABLE-LENGTH ARGUMENT LIST OF REFERENCES" TO A FUNCTION As of PHP 5, Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated, this represents no problem in most cases, since instead of calling a function like this: myfunction($arg1, &$arg2, &$arg3); you can call it myfunction($arg1, $arg2, $arg3); provided you have defined your function as function myfuncion($a1, &$a2, &$a3) { // so &$a2 and &$a3 are // declared to be refs. ... <function-code> } However, what happens if you wanted to pass an undefined number of references, i.e., something like: myfunction(&$arg1, &$arg2, ..., &$arg-n);? This doesn't work in PHP 5 anymore. In the following code I tried to amend this by using the array() language-construct as the actual argument in the call to the function. <?php function aa ($A) { // This function increments each // "pseudo-argument" by 2s foreach ($A as &$x) { $x += 2; } } $x = 1; $y = 2; $z = 3; aa(array(&$x, &$y, &$z)); echo "--$x--$y--$z--\n"; // This will output: // --3--4--5-- ?> I hope this is useful. Sergio. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.arguments.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+58331 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58331&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58331&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58331&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58331&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58331&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58331&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58331&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+58331&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php