Any way to specify optional parameter values in PHP?

Question

Let\'s say I\'ve got a PHP function foo:

function foo($firstName = \'john\', $lastName = \'doe\') {
    echo $firstName . \" \" . $lastName;
}
// foo(); --&g         


        

Answer 1

The way you want: no.

You could use some special mark, like NULL to note that value is not supplied:

function foo($firstName, $lastName = 'doe') {
    if (is_null($firstName))
        $firstName = 'john';
    echo $firstName . " " . $lastName;
}

foo(null, 'smith');