I was just going through the curl library for codeigniter to understand the code. Here is the link. There is this function __call() which I am not sure about. Is it an inbuilt function in CI? I suppose it is called whenever any method of this library is called, for example using
$this->curl->simple_get();
Can someone please shed the light. I couldn't find much info on the codeigniter user guide.
No - __call() is a php function. It is known as one of the magic methods.
The magic method __call() is to undeclared methods what __get() and __set() are to undeclared data member.
These methods are automatically called internally when the program tires to execute a method that has not been defined within the class at the time of development.
__call() takes two arguments. The first argument is the name of the undeclared method invoked by the program and the second is an array that contains a list of parameters passed to the undeclared array
Example
class Customer {
public function __call($name, $args) {
var_dump($name);
echo "\n";
var_dump($args);
echo "\n";
}
}
$c = new Customer();
$c->setName("some","name");
__call() is a magic function in OOP, it's invoked if the function isn't found. So because there is no simple_get() function inside the Curl class, the __call() function will be called, and you can see, there is a comment there, what will happen with the method call.
