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[nycphp-talk] function references

Jesse Callaway bonsaime at gmail.com
Sun Jan 11 01:47:48 EST 2009


Sweet so, I think

$a = 'my_func';

does it for me. I'd love to understand the following code, but I'll have to
read it a couple more times. Haven't quite gotten into classy stuff like
this yet. Looks like actionscript to me with this execute function.

Thanks so much. I didn't expect to get this good an answer.

-jesse

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Elijah Insua <tmpvar at gmail.com> wrote:

> umm... with objects this gets sexy.
>
>
> class Add {
>     public function execute($a, $b) { return $a + $b; }
> }
>
> class Subtract {
>     public function execute($a, $b) { return $a - $b; }
> }
>
> $executors = array(array('object'=>new Add(), 'params' => array(1,1)));
>
> foreach ($executors as $execute)
> {
>     echo "Result: " . call_user_funct_array(array($execute['object'],
> 'execute'), $execute['params']));
>
> }
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Brian O'Connor <gatzby3jr at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Oh sorry, forgot to add this too, which I think better fits your question:
>>
>> <?php
>>
>> function my_func($a) {
>>     print $a;
>> }
>>
>> $a = 'my_func';
>>
>> $a('hello');
>>
>> ?>
>>
>> prints:
>>
>> hello
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Brian O'Connor <gatzby3jr at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I believe this is what you're looking for.
>>>
>>> I've done similar things in the past, but I don't have the code handy.
>>>
>>> http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Jesse Callaway <bonsaime at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is it possible to take a reference to a function and then stick it in an
>>>> array?
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to have an array with function names as the keys and the values
>>>> would be references to the actual function. This way I could do
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> do[$that_function];
>>>>
>>>> Basically being lazy and don't want to have a big ugly switch block when
>>>> I could just declare the array, the functions, and then call it all in one
>>>> line.
>>>>
>>>> Not even sure what the calling syntax would be, so I'm not sticking to
>>>> this example but it shows the idea I hope.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is this more commonly done with some sort of eval() function?
>>>>
>>>> -jesse
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
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