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Request #45863 Variable functions.
Submitted: 2008-08-19 10:28 UTC Modified: 2014-11-02 01:33 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
Same Version:0 (0.0%)
Same OS:1 (100.0%)
From: amethana at gmail dot com Assigned: requinix (profile)
Status: Closed Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 5.2.6 OS: Irrelevant
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-08-19 10:28 UTC] amethana at gmail dot com 
Description:
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Variable functions would be nice.

Especially seeing that this works:

class Test {function mb_strlen($v){return mb_strlen($v);}}
$type = 'mb_str';
$obj = new Test;
echo $obj->{$type . "len"}($type);

Reproduce code:
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$type = 'mb_str';

echo {$type . 'len'}($type);

Expected result:
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6

Actual result:
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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in Command line code on line 1

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 [2012-10-12 20:17 UTC] klaussantana at gmail dot com 
Look at this:

<?php
echo call_user_func('mb_strlen', $type);
echo call_user_func_array('mb_strlen', array($type));
?>

You can also do something like this:

<?php
function MyBrandNewFunction( $Param1, $Param2, $Param3 ){}
echo call_user_func('MyBrandNewFunction', $Param1, $Param2, $Param3);
echo call_user_func_array('MyBrandNewFunction', array( $Param1, $Param2, $Param3 ));
?>

But working like that would be nice too.
 [2014-11-02 01:33 UTC] requinix@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Package: Feature/Change Request +Package: *General Issues -Assigned To: +Assigned To: requinix
 [2014-11-02 01:33 UTC] requinix@php.net 
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