JavaScript create_function

Creates an anonymous function, and returns its name (funny, eh?)

function create_function (args, code) {
    // Creates an anonymous function, and returns its name (funny, eh?)  
    // 
    // version: 909.322
    // discuss at: http://phpjs.org/functions/create_function    // +   original by: Johnny Mast (http://www.phpvrouwen.nl)
    // +   reimplemented by: Brett Zamir (http://brett-zamir.me)
    // *     example 1: f = create_function('a, b', "return (a + b);");
    // *     example 1: f(1, 2);
    // *     returns 1: 3     try {
        return Function.apply(null, args.split(',').concat(code));
     }
     catch (e) {
         return false;     }
}

external links: original PHP docs | raw js source

Examples

Running

1 2	f = create_function('a, b', "return (a + b);"); f(1, 2);

Should return

Dependencies

No dependencies, you can use this function standalone.

Open syntax issues

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Authors

Thanks to the following developers, you get to have create_function goodness in JavaScript.

Johnny Mast ( original )
Brett Zamir ( reimplemented )

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Use:

[CODE]
your_stuff('here');
[/CODE]

for proper code formatting
By submitting code here you are allowing us to use it in php.js hence dual licensing it under the MIT and GPL licenses

Kevin van Zonneveld
8 Sep '08

@ cedric: Hi Cedric, that's a very sharp observations. We have chosen to astray a little bit from PHP's implementation here.

You can still handle the functions in the same way as PHP:

1	call_user_func_array(create_function(), $a);

Only now both methods pass actual functions instead of function names (what PHP does).

It was a trade-off, because otherwise we would have to work with global variables which would be nasty.

Documentation is currently copied 1-on-1 from the PHP site, to be 100% correct we would have to make exceptions in the documentation, but unfortunately that not our number one priority at the moment.

Thanks for your input.

cedric
29 Aug '08

The doc states that this function "Returns a unique function name as a string," like the php version would, the example code looks like it's returning the actual function, not the name of the function (in PHP, it would have named the function something like 'lambda1' and returned it).

If your other functions like array_map() expect a function instead of the function's name, it should be okay - but the documentation would still be wrong.

Also, the example is incorrect or, not clear and I'm not understanding it.

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