#45863 [NEW]: Variable functions.

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Newsgroups php.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From:             amethana at gmail dot com
Operating system: Irrelevant
PHP version:      5.2.6
PHP Bug Type:     Feature/Change Request
Bug description:  Variable functions.

Description:
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Variable functions would be nice.

Especially seeing that this works:

class Test {function mb_strlen($v){return mb_strlen($v);}}
$type = 'mb_str';
$obj = new Test;
echo $obj->{$type . "len"}($type);

Reproduce code:
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$type = 'mb_str';

echo {$type . 'len'}($type);

Expected result:
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6

Actual result:
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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in Command line code on line 1

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Expected behavior:            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45863&r=notwrong
Not enough info:              http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45863&r=notenoughinfo
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register_globals:             http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45863&r=globals
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MySQL Configuration Error:    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=45863&r=mysqlcfg
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