PHP supports UTF-8 characters in function names!
Stéphane de Luca — Permalink | TrackBack: https://stephanedeluca.com/trackback/864 — exists for 15 years & 6 months ago
Apr. 8th, 2009 13:14 by While reworking a function that basically dumps the PHP stack when a crash occures, I came accros an interesting things I silently complain about for the past few years: why the hell I cannot write a function name with accents in there?
Well, the dream comes true in PHP 5.x, here you are, see the function Mélody_είναι_συμπαθητική () which mixes both french accents and greek caharacters -- says: Mélody is friendly.
<?php
// additional code
function Mélody_είναι_συμπαθητική($arg="avec un long long long argument qu'il faudrait raccourcir un peu") {
print dumpPHPStack(false);
print "nn";
}
function main($arg1, $arg2) {
print "En PHP 5.x on peut appeler des fonctions ayant des accents...n";
Mélody_είναι_συμπαθητική("avec un long long long argument qu'il faudrait raccourcir un peu");
}
main('here', "we go");
?>
Which outputs the following:
PHP STACK DUMP
| # | Line # | File name | Function call
| 1 | 102 | /Users/stephanedeluca/Desktop/phpdump.php | dumpPHPStack (false)
| 2 | 109 | /Users/stephanedeluca/Desktop/phpdump.php | Mélody_είναι_συμπαθητική ("avec un long long long argument qu'il faudrait raccourcir un peu")
| 3 | 112 | /Users/stephanedeluca/Desktop/phpdump.php | main ("here", "we go")
I also tested right-to-left characters such as arabic and it works!
PHP STACK DUMP
|# |Line # |File name |Function call
|1 |82 |/Users/stephanedeluca/Desktop/phpdump.php |dumpPHPStack (null)
|2 |87 |/Users/stephanedeluca/Desktop/phpdump.php |mélody◊صوفي ()
I'm really happy about this.