Re: [PHP] function_exists question

2009-02-05 Thread Thodoris
Is there a way to check not only if a function exists, but also to check that the number and types of parameters desired match a function definition? The reason being that additional options have been added in php 4 and 5 to various standard function calls, but I'm still running a php3 and

Re: [PHP] function_exists question

2009-02-05 Thread German Geek
Why can't you update to Version 5? I might be a bit anal about trying to always get the newest version of everything, but seriously version 3 has surely more known security issues as well as performance costs. What's the cost of upgrading compared to the cost of writing code that works in every

RE: [PHP] function_exists question

2009-02-05 Thread Boyd, Todd M.
-Original Message- From: th.he...@gmail.com [mailto:th.he...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of German Geek Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 5:02 PM To: t...@kinetix.gr Cc: Matt Pagel; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] function_exists question Why can't you update to Version 5

Re: [PHP] function_exists question

2009-02-05 Thread Chris
How about this PHP developers: You could make a global variable (or constant) the user can set like define('PHP_COMPATIBLE_VERSION', '5.0.1'); or something to tell PHP 6 to interpret it like PHP 5.x . That way, at least you are guaranteed that the code will work like on that version. It might