I have a SoapClient instance generated for a WSDL file. All except one of the method invocations require the username and the password to be passed id.
Is there any way of currying the method calls so that I can omit the username and password?
As of php 5.3 you can store an anonymous function in a variable. This anonymous function can call the "original" function with some predefined parameters.
function foo($x, $y, $z) {
echo "$x - $y - $z";
}
$bar = function($z) {
foo('A', 'B', $z);
};
$bar('C');
edit: You can also use a closure to parametrise the creation of the anonymous function
function foo($x, $y, $z) {
echo "$x - $y - $z";
}
function fnFoo($x, $y) {
return function($z) use($x,$y) {
foo($x, $y, $z);
};
}
$bar = fnFoo('A', 'B');
$bar('C');
edit2: This also works with objects
class Foo {
public function bar($x, $y, $z) {
echo "$x - $y - $z";
}
}
function fnFoobar($obj, $x, $z) {
return function ($y) use ($obj,$x,$z) {
$obj->bar($x, $y, $z);
};
}
$foo = new Foo;
$bar = fnFoobar($foo, 'A', 'C');
$bar('B');
But the other suggestions using __call() and a wrapper class may be better if you want to "enhance" a complete class.