Daevid Vincent wrote:
> Is there a way to use the default values of a function without
> specifying every single one until the parameter you want to modify in
> PHP5 ?
>
> I don't see it here, but feel this would be very useful indeed.
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.arguments.php
>
> So given a function that takes seven parameters, I want to change one of
> them and leave the other defaults alone...
>
> The above function call doesn't error out on me, it just seems it
> doesn't do anything either :-\
>
> So it seems I have to do this verboseness (AND know what the default
> values are to begin with too):
>
> SQL_QUERY('SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar = ?', array('beep'), false, true,
> false, false);
>
> Just to change one default parameter?!? :-(
>
What you are wanting to do is not possible.
Back in the day, I worked on a project that used our own variation of this type
of functionality.
We had this function that helped a little
function alternate(&$a, $b) {
return $a = ( $a ? $a : $b );
}
function query($sql, $params=array()) {
alternate($params, array());
extract($params);
alternate($parameters, null);
alternate($showSQL, false);
alternate($showErrors, true);
alternate($execute, true);
alternate($noHTML, false);
alternate($profile, 0);
# Do your thing...
}
This allowed for us to include/exclude whatever we wanted from the
it is a little long winded to get to what you are looking for ( I think )
But it worked for us.
--
Jim Lucas
"Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them."
Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V
by William Shakespeare
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