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Doc Bug #35454 User-defined functions page does not specify legal format
Submitted: 2005-11-28 17:50 UTC Modified: 2005-11-29 14:23 UTC
From: richard at phase dot org Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS:
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-11-28 17:50 UTC] richard at phase dot org 
Description:
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The documentation on user-defined functions (http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.functions.php) does not specify the format of a legal function name (wheras http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.php does  contain a regexp specifying legal variable names, for example.)

Can such information be added?

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 [2005-11-29 14:23 UTC] vrana@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the
online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time
to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better.

"Function names follow the same rules as other labels in PHP. A valid function name starts with a letter or underscore, followed by any number of letters, numbers, or underscores. As a regular expression, it would be expressed thus: [a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*."
 
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