On 13 January 2004 15:10, Sebastian Ossio wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I´m trying to give an empty reference as a parameter, in a
> function. Or
> rather make a parameter that is a reference optional.
> 
> I have a function that should react differently if it is
> given an object
> or not. It works, but it gives me a warning that the second
> argument is
> not being given obviously.
> 
> Sadly I cannot make the parameter optional in the function definition
> because mine has to be a reference. One can´t do such a thing as
> 
> function( $parameter1, & objectparameter = NULL)
> 
> this results into a parsing error.
> 
> I cannot believe that there is no way of making an object parameter
> optional. 
> 
> So tell me please what I´m missing.

PHP5 ;).  This is one of the improvements that will be in PHP 5 when it is
released.

Cheers!

Mike

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