Thanks for taking the time to reply.

I'm working on a Wordpress theme and extending one of their existing
classes (the Walker class if you're familiar with WP).  Since WP still
supports PHP4, my theme needs to as well.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jochem Maas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 5:06 PM
To: Tommy Baggett
Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP] Calling parent function with call_user_func_array


Tommy Baggett wrote:
> I'm a self-confessed PHP newb (first step towards a cure, right?), so

if these are your first steps why use php4? php5 has been out for going
on 3 years.

> apologies in advance for what may be a basic question.  I spent an 
> hour searching for an answer to this and couldn't find one.
> 
> I found one post that said there was a problem with this in 5.0.3, but

> it didn't indicate whether the fix was also applied to the PHP4 
> branch.
> 
> I'm using PHP v4.4.7.  I have class B which extends class A.  I'm 
> overriding a function that is normally called with a variable number 
> of parameters via call_user_func_array.  How do I call the class A 
> implementation of the function using call_user_func_array from the 
> class B implementation?
> 
> class A {
>   function doSomething($elements, $level) {
>     ...
>   }
> }
> 
> Class B extends A {
>   function doSomething($elements, $level) {
>     ...
>     call_user_func_array(/*class A implementation of doSomething*/, 
> args);

does this work:?

        call_user_func_array(array(parent,'doSomething'),$args);

it's an educated guess, no garantees.

>   }
> }
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help!
> 

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