http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.call-user-func.php ?
Jason
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:11:50 -0500, Julio Sergio Santana
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need to record the names of functions, and then use them later.
> Recently I found the following example within the on-line documentation:
> <?php
> function foo() {
> echo "In foo()<br />\n";
> }
>
> $func = 'foo';
> $func(); // This calls foo()
>
> ?>
>
> then I supposed that it was easy to extend this concept to objects and
> wrote the following case:
>
> <?php
>
> function foo() {
> echo "In foo()<br />\n";
> }
>
> class a {
> var $fname;
> function a() {
> $this->fname = 'foo'; // the name of the function
> }
>
> function execute() { // method to execute the named function
> $this->fname();
> // I also tried here
> // {$this->fname}();
> // ${this->fname}();
> // "$this->fname"();
> // but none of these worked
> }
> }
>
> $w = new a;
> $w->execute();
>
> ?>
>
> And this was the error I got:
>
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> Content-type: text/html
>
> <br>
> <b>Fatal error</b>: Call to undefined function: fname() in <b>-</b> on
> line <b>14</b><br>
>
> I know that this can be solved easily with an intermediate variable:
>
> $temp = $this->fname;
> $temp();
>
> but I wonder if there is a more direct method.
>
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