<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >func_get_arg</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="create_function" HREF="function.create-function.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="func_get_args" HREF="function.func-get-args.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.create-function.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.func-get-args.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.func-get-arg" ></A >func_get_arg</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN29253" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 )</P >func_get_arg -- Return an item from the argument list</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN29256" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >mixed <B CLASS="methodname" >func_get_arg</B > ( int arg_num)<BR ></BR ><P > Returns the argument which is at the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >arg_num</I ></TT >'th offset into a user-defined function's argument list. Function arguments are counted starting from zero. <B CLASS="function" >func_get_arg()</B > will generate a warning if called from outside of a function definition. </P ><P > If <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >arg_num</I ></TT > is greater than the number of arguments actually passed, a warning will be generated and <B CLASS="function" >func_get_arg()</B > will return <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT >. </P ><P > <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><A NAME="AEN29272" ></A ><P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php function foo() { $numargs = func_num_args(); echo "Number of arguments: $numargs<br>\n"; if ($numargs >= 2) { echo "Second argument is: " . func_get_arg (1) . "<br>\n"; } } foo (1, 2, 3); ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV > </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >func_get_arg()</B > may be used in conjunction with <A HREF="function.func-num-args.html" ><B CLASS="function" >func_num_args()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.func-get-args.html" ><B CLASS="function" >func_get_args()</B ></A > to allow user-defined functions to accept variable-length argument lists. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > This function was added in PHP 4. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ></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.create-function.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.func-get-args.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >create_function</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" >func_get_args</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >