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Scavokovich
Scavokovich

Reputation: 91

Rename built-in functions w/o using 3rd party add-on?

I'd like to preface the built-in PHP functions in my code with "php_" to simply make it easier to identify them as such, and to do so without using a 3rd party add-on. So my first attempt at it was this:

<?php
define('php_date_default_timezone_set', 'date_default_timezone_set');
define('php_date', 'date');

php_date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');
echo php_date('l, F j, Y \a\t g:i:s a');
?>

This causes the error,

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function php_date

One [ugly] way to do this that actually works is:

<?php
define('php_', '');

php_.date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');
echo php_.date('l, F j, Y \a\t g:i:s a');

?>

I suspect there is more than one way to do it; how would you do it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 200

Answers (1)

Teaqu
Teaqu

Reputation: 3263

You could wrap the functions in your own custom functions. Mark Ormston's method is better though.

function php_date_default_timezone_set($timezone)
{
    date_default_timezone_set($timezone);
}

function php_date($date) 
{
    date($date);
}

Upvotes: 1

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