I am a n00b at php. I was learning about Default Parameters so I made this function.
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x
function doFoo($name = "johnny"){
echo "Hello $name" . "<br />";
}
I made these calls
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doFoo();
doFoo("ted");
doFoo("ted", 22);
The first two printed what was expected i.e
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Hello johnny
Hello ted
but the third call also printed
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Hello ted
I was expecting an error, after all the function is made for one argument whereas I am calling it with two arguments.
Why was there no error?
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Answer
It is not wrong to pass more arguments to a function than needed.
You only get error if you pass to few arguments.
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function test($arg1) {
var_dump($arg1);
}
test();
Above will result in following error:
Uncaught ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function…
If you want to fetch first argument plus all others arguments passed to function you can do:
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function test($arg1, $args) {
var_dump($arg1, $args);
}
test('test1', 'test2', 'test3');
Resulting in:
string(5) “test1”
array(2) {
[0]=>
string(5) “test2”
[1]=>
string(5) “test3”
}