Is it possible to skip parameters that have default values in a php(5) function call?

Question

I have this:

function foo($a=\'apple\', $b=\'brown\', $c=\'Capulet\') {
    // do something
}

Is something like this possible:

Answer 1

If it's your own function instead of one of PHP's core, you could do:

function foo($arguments = []) {
  $defaults = [
    'an_argument' => 'a value',
    'another_argument' => 'another value',
    'third_argument' => 'yet another value!',
  ];

  $arguments = array_merge($defaults, $arguments);

  // now, do stuff!
}

foo(['another_argument' => 'not the default value!']);