Functions require ALL arguments in 4.0.1

riemondi

This is really annoying. I upgraded from 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and quickly had to change back because of this problem. I have many functions which take a variable amount of arguments, for example:

<?php

Function thisFunc($one, $two) {
return "$one : $two";
};

print thisFunc($one);

This used to work just fine, I didn't have to call it with both vars (thisFunc($one,"")😉 but now I do!

Otherwise I get this message:
Warning: Missing argument 2 for thisfunc() in /Users/riemondi/Sites/test/test.php on line 3

I am not, I repeat AM NOT, going to put an empty var in every call I make to functions like this. It's gotta be on the multitude of 10,000 calls affected.

WHY was this change made? What can I do to get rid of the Warning message? WILL this be fixed?

Thanks in advance for any help!

louie

What you can do is make a default empty value for a variable like so

<?php

Function thisFunc($one, $two = "") {
return "$one : $two";
};

print thisFunc($one);

This way if the second arg is not passed it will default to "". This should fix your problem without having to change the function calls.

BTW you are not preaching to the writers of PHP, so raising your words to upper case is certianly not going to get the writers of PHP to change anything for you.

riemondi

I was hoping some writers of PHP might stop by every once in a while. I got no help when I emailed over there. Thank you very much for the help!

cheald

The environment is open source, after all. It shouldn't be terribly difficult to modify and recompile to skip error checking on function references. I agree, though, that it is easier to specify a default value.

Anon

You can just write a function that accepts varying argument lists - read the manual - it's all in there.

(how often have I said that today? that's probably why they're not answering you - rtfm! 🙂)