<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >call_user_func</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Function Handling functions" HREF="ref.funchand.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="call_user_func_array" HREF="function.call-user-func-array.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="create_function" HREF="function.create-function.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.call-user-func-array.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.create-function.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.call-user-func" ></A >call_user_func</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN29192" ></A ><P > (PHP 3>= 3.0.3, PHP 4 )</P >call_user_func -- Call a user function given by the first parameter </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN29195" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >mixed <B CLASS="methodname" >call_user_func</B > ( callback function [, mixed parameter [, mixed ...]])<BR ></BR ><P > Call a user defined function given by the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >function</I ></TT > parameter. Take the following: <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><A NAME="AEN29211" ></A ><P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >function barber ($type) { print "You wanted a $type haircut, no problem"; } call_user_func ('barber', "mushroom"); call_user_func ('barber', "shave");</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV > </P ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.call-user-func-array.html" ><B CLASS="function" >call_user_func_array()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.call-user-method.html" ><B CLASS="function" >call_user_method()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.call-user-method-array.html" ><B CLASS="function" >call_user_method_array()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.call-user-func-array.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.create-function.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >call_user_func_array</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.funchand.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >create_function</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >