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call_user_method

(PHP3 >= 3.0.3, PHP4 )

call_user_method -- Call a user method on an specific object

Description

mixed call_user_method (string method_name, object obj [, mixed parameter [, mixed ...]])

Calls a the method referred by method_name from the user defined obj object. An example of usage is below, where we define a class, instantiate an object and use call_user_method() to call indirectly its print_info method.

<?php
class Country {
	var $NAME;
	var $TLD;
	
	function Country($name, $tld) {
  		$this->NAME = $name;
		$this->TLD = $tld;
	}

	function print_info($prestr="") {
		echo $prestr."Country: ".$this->NAME."\n";
		echo $prestr."Top Level Domain: ".$this->TLD."\n";
	}
}

$cntry = new Country("Peru","pe");

echo "* Calling the object method directly\n";
$cntry->print_info();

echo "\n* Calling the same method indirectly\n";
call_user_method ("print_info", $cntry, "\t");
?>