Re: Mixed return type - boolean and array/resource/closure or object

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Robert Stoll wrote:

> I would like to know if a PHP built-in function/method exists which returns one of the following combinations
> - a boolean or an array
> - a boolean or a resource
> - a boolean or a closure
> - a boolean or an object
> 
> I searched in the language manual, but it is quite hard to be honest since there is not really an overview.
> Please get back to me if you are certain that there is not such a function/method or give me an example if there is one.

Off the top of my head, I can only name functions that return
resource/boolean, such as fopen().  But as boolean might be used as
failure indicator, there may be functions with the other return types.

BTW: what do you need that information for?

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Christoph M. Becker

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