Question

How to I make a call to a function where I want to use some default args and some some I pass in:

function genericlist (array $arr, string $name, [string $attribs = null], 
           [string $key = 'value'], [string $text = 'text'], 
           [mixed $selected = NULL], [ $idtag = false], [ $translate = false])

I only want to pass in $arr, $name, $selected and use the default values for everything else, how do I do that? I know I could pass in the default values and go in order but I there must me another way. Thank you.

Answer 1

Well, either you do pass the default values indeed, either you reorder the arguments so as to put $selected before all other optional arguments.

Also, you can request for named parameters on PHP development forums.