Hello All

Simple question.
In perl I have @_ which I can use to count the number of params fed to a function, is there any way i can count the number of params fed to a function in PHP.

Cheers.
jfp

PHP uses a rather different system to Perl, so there's no direct comparison to @_.

You can declare a function that has one or more optional parameters, for example
    function dressing($text,$colour = "fushia",$size =
which can take one, two, or three parameters.  You can't actually tell within the function how many parameters were given, but if you're looking to find out how many parameters there were so that you can set the rest to a default (probbaly the most common reason to want to knoe), it's already done for you.

Other circumstances do arise where you want to pass a variable and non-specific number of parameters to a function, and the best way to do this is within an array:
Code:

$highest = getbiggestpropn(array(10,30,60,40,20,19,$k,12,14));

and then your code for the function could read:
Code:

function getbiggestpropn($of) {          $total = 0;          for ($k=0; $k<count($of); $k++) {               $total += $of[$k];          }          return ($total / count($of));     }

N.B. - code only manually syntax checked ...



This was something I had in my head really, I was thinking of counting the params for method overloading, along the lines of a php class that would call a different constructor based on the number of params fed in.

jfp

Actually you can overload functions and count the number of parameters passed to it without using arrays, as you requested.

function myfunc()
{
 $num_of_args=func_num_args();
 echo "Number of arguments is : " . $num_of_args;
 for($loop=0;$loop<$num_of_args;$loop++)
 {
   echo "Parameter " . $loop . " = " . func_get_arg ($loop);
 }
}

myfunc(1,2,4,6,7);

This is an example, to show uncomplicated values, but you can pass any type you want, just deal with them appropriately inside it.

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