Question

well im learning to create a wordpress plugin
i downloaded one and read the codes, and i saw this
i assume ‘foo’ is the tag where it will add action to..

but what does the array() exactly do?

add_action('foo', array('foo1', 'foo2'));

i looked at http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_action
and there is no clear definition about it ..

Answer 1

Right, the first argument is the tag (to which you’ll be adding the action), and the second argument specifies the function to call (i.e. your callback).

The second argument takes in a PHP callback, and as such, accepts a number of valid forms. Check this out for all of them :

PHP Callback Pseudo-Types

The type you’ve shown above is of type 2. The first element of the array specifies a class, and the second element specifies which function of the class you’d like to call.

So with the example you’ve given above, what that will do is that, whenever the foo() action is called, it will eventually call foo1->foo2() as well.