Is it possible to curry method calls in PHP?

Question

I have a SoapClient instance generated for a WSDL file. All except one of the method invocations require the username and the password to be passed id.

Is there any

Answer 1

Although not a very good solution, you could write a basic wrapper class that used PHPs magic methods (Specifically __call) to call the actual function but append the user name and password to the argument list.

Basic example:

class SC
{
    private $user;
    private $pass;

    public function __construct($user, $pass)
    {
        $this->user = $user;
        $this->pass = $pass;
    }

    public function __call($name, $arguments) 
    {
        $arguments = array_merge(array($this->user, $this->pass), $arguments);  
        call_user_func_array($name, $arguments);
    }
}

Answer 2

You can use partial application and curry functions from Non-standard PHP library.