Question

I have several calls to a getContent() function with arguments that are pulled into the function using func_get_args(). Several of the arguments stay the same, and I would like to set them as a variable to prevent having to duplicate the repeated arguments throughout all of these function calls.

Here is an example of the function call with the full arguments:

<? getContent(
    "article",
    "display:list",
    "find_series:team",
    "find_category:pastors-team",
    "order:series",
    "find_parent_category:team",
    "show:<div class='box box_stories'>",
    "show:<div class='box_pad box_img bwWrapper'>",
    "show:<div class='box_inner_pad'>",
    "show:<h3><a href='/staff-detail/__slug__'>__authorX__</a></h3>",
    "show:<p class='teamsummary'>__summary__</p>",
    "show:<p class='phone_icon'>__authorXworkphone__</p>",
    "show:</div>",
    "show:</div>",
    "show:</div>"
); 
?>

Ideally, I would be able to do something like this:

<? $myStyle = 
    "show:<div class='box box_stories'>",
    "show:<div class='box_pad box_img bwWrapper'>",
    "show:<div class='box_inner_pad'>",
    "show:<h3><a href='/staff-detail/__slug__'>__authorX__</a></h3>",
    "show:<p class='teamsummary'>__summary__</p>",
    "show:<p class='phone_icon'>__authorXworkphone__</p>",
    "show:</div>",
    "show:</div>",
    "show:</div>";

getContent(
    "article",
    "display:list",
    "find_series:team",
    "find_category:leadership-team",
    "order:series",
    "find_parent_category:team",
    $myStyle
);

getContent(
    "article",
    "display:list",
    "find_series:team",
    "find_category:executive-team",
    "order:series",
    "find_parent_category:team",
    $myStyle
); ?>

Is this possible? What is the best way to approach this?

Note: I cannot change the getContent() function, it’s a core function of the CMS

Answer 1

This is the simplest one i can think of:

call_user_func_array('getContent',array_merge(array(
    "article",
    "display:list",
    "find_series:team",
    "find_category:executive-team",
    "order:series",
    "find_parent_category:team",
    ),$myStyle)
);

Edit: Yazmat’s solution will probably be better.
You can use it with a variable number of arguments like this:

<?php
function myGetContent() {
    $defaults = array(
        "show:<div class='box box_stories'>",
        "show:<div class='box_pad box_img bwWrapper'>",
        "show:<div class='box_inner_pad'>",
        "show:<h3><a href='/staff-detail/__slug__'>__authorX__</a></h3>",
        "show:<p class='teamsummary'>__summary__</p>",
        "show:<p class='phone_icon'>__authorXworkphone__</p>",
        "show:</div>",
        "show:</div>",
        "show:</div>"
    );
    return call_user_func_array('getContent',array_merge(func_get_args(), $defaults));
}