PHP Functions ?

I have created a function in php that takes 4 strings passed to it

ie.


My question is, if I was to pass 5 or 6 but not change any of the code that already calls for the first 4 how do I do that ?

If I add 1 or two more, my php errors in the old code, but it's stilly changing all the calling programs and adding ,'','' to them all

HELP.

I think you can do something like this to give the new variables default values:

I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding the question or not, but you can use func_num_args to find out how many arguments have been passed to a function and use func_get_args or func_get_arg to retrieve either an array of all args or an individual argument. Perhaps you could test for the number of arguments that have been passed with func_num_args and if there are additional arguments passed you can retrieve them with one of the other two functions and write code to handle them.

Thanks.

demo_function($var, $mode, $data, $user, $newstring1 = "", newstring2="")
{

}

Yes i fully agree with CAFU These are known as default arguments if u provide value for them when u r calling those functions then that values are used otherwise the default arguments are used.