philip          Mon Nov 18 02:59:05 2002 EDT

  Modified files:              
    /phpdoc/en/reference/var/functions  is-callable.xml 
  Log:
  Initial documentation, leaving commented out for now until confirmed.
  Deals with bug #20216 as per Leon's request.
  
  
Index: phpdoc/en/reference/var/functions/is-callable.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/reference/var/functions/is-callable.xml:1.2 
phpdoc/en/reference/var/functions/is-callable.xml:1.3
--- phpdoc/en/reference/var/functions/is-callable.xml:1.2       Wed Apr 17 02:44:57 
2002
+++ phpdoc/en/reference/var/functions/is-callable.xml   Mon Nov 18 02:59:04 2002
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.2 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.3 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/var.xml, last change in rev 1.87 -->
   <refentry id="function.is-callable">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -19,6 +19,53 @@
     <para>
      &warn.undocumented.func;
     </para>
+<!--
+    <simpara>
+     The <parameter>var</parameter> parameter is the name of a function or method.  
+     Also, class or object methods are specified by passing a numerical array with 
+     two elements: the class or object, and a method name.
+    </simpara>
+    <simpara>
+     The optional <parameter>syntax_only</parameter> parameter will check
+     only for syntax and defaults to &false;  The third <parameter>
+     callable_name</parameter> parameter is also optional.
+    </simpara>
+    <para>
+     In our example below note, however, that despite the implication that 
+     <literal>a::b()</literal> is a callable static method, this is not the 
+     case.
+     <example>
+      <title>Using <function>is_callable</function></title>
+      <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+class a 
+{
+    var $c;
+               
+    function b() {
+        return($this->c);
+    }
+}
+
+$d = new a;
+
+if(is_callable(array($d, 'b'), FALSE, $name)) {
+
+    echo $name;
+}
+
+/* The above will print:
+    
+    a::
+
+*/
+?>
+]]>
+      </programlisting>
+     </example>
+    </para>
+-->
    </refsect1>
   </refentry>
 



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