The latest articles on DEV Community by Eduard Llach (@eduardllach). https://dev.to/eduardllach https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F107473%2F0c9a819c-90ef-45ed-b70b-632c2ff351a9.jpeg https://dev.to/eduardllach en Eduard Llach Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:15:50 +0000 https://dev.to/eduardllach/stack-local-functions-in-php-1i27 https://dev.to/eduardllach/stack-local-functions-in-php-1i27 <p>Recently, in one of my projects I needed to pass a local function to "stack" it.</p> <h2> What is a local function? </h2> <p>In php a local function is a function within a function</p> <div class="ltag_gist-liquid-tag"> </div> <h2> What I needed? </h2> <p>Well, basically I needed is to stack function calls in a list, so I could call it later.</p> <p>In PHP you have the callable type, and you can call any function that is globally accessible or a method of an object which is <em>globally</em> accessible, knowing the function's name.</p> <h2> The solution </h2> <p>I used an interface to do something like this:</p> <div class="ltag_gist-liquid-tag"> </div> <p>What do you thing?<br> Have I done an complicated workaround just to skip doing a function globally available and protected by a namespace?</p> php