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? -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php