functions and unknown args

[Anon]

I'm having a problem similar to this:

I'm trying write a function that takes an unknown amount of arguments (which can be changed by the user), but don't know the best (read most EFFICIENT) way of doing this.

The best idea I've had so far is to use a query string and a character ("/" for instance) as the argument separator.

EG, code would be...

fucntion print($a) {
(some code to split the string at "/")
}

$arg = "/print1/roint2/print3/print4";

print($arg);

This would not seem terribly efficient. Is there a way I could accomplish this with a database and global values? (the database would hold ther defined amount of args to expect, and what they are called)

Any ideas?

[emcb_php]

Hi,

You could do it like this, Using an query-string to specify how many arguments the function uses.

<?php

if ($args=="1") {
function foo_bar( "$arg1" ) {
// Your PHP Code Here
}
}

if ($args=="2") {
function foo_bar( "$arg1", "$arg2" ) {
// Your PHP Code Here
}
}

?>

And so on depending if you want to limit the number of args available to the client.

[Anon]

what I'm really after is a php equivalent of PERLs @ARGV

Any ideas?

[emcb_php]

Sorry,

I dont know that much perl yet, Maybe you could try searching the php.net website from http://www.php.net/manual from there you can search the php-manual.

Elfyn