func_num_args

func_num_args -- Returns the number of arguments passed to the function.

Description

int func_num_args(void );

Returns the number of arguments passed into the current user-defined function. func_num_args() will generate a warning if called from outside of a function definition.

  1 
  2 <?php
  3 function foo() {
  4     $numargs = func_num_args();
  5     echo "Number of arguments: $numargs\n";
  6 } 
  7 
  8 foo (1, 2, 3);  // Prints 'Number of arguments: 3'
  9 ?>
 10       

func_num_args() may be used in conjunction with func_get_arg() and func_get_args() to allow user-defined functions to accept variable-length argument lists.

Note: This function was added in PHP 4.