Function help

[chads2k2]

Hey everyone,

I am creating my own function and want to know how I create a function that can have optional params. How do I tell the function that there might be optional paramas set?

Thanks,
Chad

EDIT: Forgot to subscribe to the thread. 🙂

[bpat1434]

well, I take it you want something like:

<?php

function my_function($option1 = '', $option2 = FALSE){
    echo 'Option 1: '.$option1.'<br>Option 2: '.$option2;
}

Add the variable positions in the function declaration lets us pass variables (if necessary). If values are not passed in those places, then the defaults are used. The defaults here being an empty string ('') and FALSE. You can call this function like so:

<?php

my_function('Some weird String', TRUE);
echo '<hr>';
my_function();

?>

That will output:

Option1: Some weird String
Option2: TRUE
-----------------------------------
Option1:
Option2: FALSE

Hope that helps...

~Brett