We all know about functions and how we can pass arguments to it. But did you know that we can pass variable number of arguments in a function?
Consider a function sum() which adds numbers passed into its arguments. Now we want it to add all the numbers passed onto the arguments. Eg; if we call sum (21, 45) or sum (45, 23, 78, 56, 90) it should add all of them. Even if we pass a 100 arguments, it should execute successfully.
Below is the code for making the function sum() :
function sum() { $count = func_num_args(); $sum = 0; for($i=0; $i<$count; $i++) { $num = func_get_arg($i); $sum += $num; } return $sum; }
In above function func_num_args() give the total number of arguments that have been passed and func_get_arg() takes argument number as argument and returns the argument value.
We also have another function - func_get_args() which returns all the arguments passed to the function as an array.
For more information and examples on these functions:
func_num_args()
func_get_arg()
func_get_args()
Cheers!