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Does class function exist

I'm trying to write a simple function in a class which will display debug information if the function doesn't exist. However I don't know how to specify $this->myfunction name. What I've been working on is:-

<?php
    class pageHandler {
        function showMain($arrayData) {
            
        }
        
        function callFunction($functionName, $arrayData) {
            if (function_exists($functionName)) {
                call_user_func(array($this, $functionName),$arrayData);
            } else {
                echo "Function $functionName not yet declared<br/>" . print_r($arrayData,true);
            }
        }
    }
    
    $newTest = new pageHandler();
    $newTest->callFunction("showMain",array('para1'=>'val1', 'para2'=>'val2'));
?>

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Any ideas how I should be testing function_exists for a class?

Thank you

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Ray Paseur

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tonelm54

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I agree, however the reason I wanted to put the debug information bit in was to display what function Im missing. I need to quickly write a project, and there are a lot of functions I need to write, and as in the past few days its gone from a simple project to quite a massive one I know Im going to miss out functions, and instead of ugly errors I wanted to display a "nicer" message with the information in it.

I know usually I could get the IDE to display the error saying "function not declared", however as it will be multiple programs all feeding in (some I've got no documentation on) I wanted to simply my debugging

Ray Paseur

Yeah, I've had projects like that, too! Best of luck with it, ~Ray