<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >call_user_func</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Function Handling Functions" HREF="ref.funchand.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="call_user_func_array" HREF="function.call-user-func-array.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="create_function" HREF="function.create-function.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.call-user-func-array.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.create-function.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.call-user-func" ></A >call_user_func</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN32303" ></A ><P > (PHP 3>= 3.0.3, PHP 4 , PHP 5)</P >call_user_func -- Call a user function given by the first parameter </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN32306" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >mixed <B CLASS="methodname" >call_user_func</B > ( callback function [, mixed parameter [, mixed ...]])<BR ></BR ><P > Call a user defined function given by the <VAR CLASS="parameter" >function</VAR > parameter. Take the following: </P ><P > <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><P ></P ><A NAME="AEN32323" ></A ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br /></font><font color="#007700">function </font><font color="#0000BB">barber</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$type</font><font color="#007700">) <br />{<br /> echo </font><font color="#DD0000">"You wanted a $type haircut, no problem"</font><font color="#007700">;<br />}<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">call_user_func</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#DD0000">'barber'</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">"mushroom"</font><font color="#007700">);<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">call_user_func</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#DD0000">'barber'</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">"shave"</font><font color="#007700">);<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV > </P ><P > Object methods may also be invoked statically using this function by passing <VAR CLASS="literal" >array($objectname, $methodname)</VAR > to the <VAR CLASS="parameter" >function</VAR > parameter. </P ><P > <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><P ></P ><A NAME="AEN32329" ></A ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br /></font><font color="#007700">class </font><font color="#0000BB">myclass </font><font color="#007700">{<br /> function </font><font color="#0000BB">say_hello</font><font color="#007700">() <br /> {<br /> echo </font><font color="#DD0000">"Hello!\n"</font><font color="#007700">;<br /> }<br />}<br /><br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$classname </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#DD0000">"myclass"</font><font color="#007700">;<br /><br /></font><font color="#0000BB">call_user_func</font><font color="#007700">(array(</font><font color="#0000BB">$classname</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">'say_hello'</font><font color="#007700">));<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV > </P ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.is-callable.html" ><B CLASS="function" >is_callable()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.call-user-func-array.html" ><B CLASS="function" >call_user_func_array()</B ></A > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.call-user-func-array.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Acasã</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.create-function.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >call_user_func_array</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.funchand.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Sus</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >create_function</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >