Question

If you have the following function

function func1($captainObvious="John",$name){
  return "Hallo my name is ".$captainObvious."<br>Welcome ".$name."!";
}

How do you call it with argument 2 without giving an argument 1?
I would like to call it with something like

func1(default,"Benny");

But I can’t seem find that possibility.

Answer 1

If you cannot change func1, you will have to use func1("John", "Benny"). If you can change it but changing parameter order (the preferred solution!) is out of question because of legacy issues, you could use null as default flag:

function func1($captainObvious="John", $name){
  if ($captainObvious === null) {
    $captaionObvious = "John";
  }
  return "Hallo my name is ".$captainObvious."<br>Welcome ".$name."!";
}

func1(null,"Benny");