PHP's is_callable in JavaScript
Here’s what our current JavaScript equivalent to PHP's is_callable looks like.
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How to use
You you can install via npm install locutus
and
require it via require('locutus/php/var/is_callable')
.
You could also require the var
module in full
so that you could access var.is_callable
instead.
If you intend to target the browser, you can then use a module bundler such as Parcel, webpack, Browserify, or rollup.js. This can be important because Locutus allows modern JavaScript in the source files, meaning it may not work in all browsers without a build/transpile step. Locutus does transpile all functions to ES5 before publishing to npm.
A community effort
Not unlike Wikipedia, Locutus is an ongoing community effort. Our philosophy follows The McDonald’s Theory. This means that we don't consider it to be a bad thing that many of our functions are first iterations, which may still have their fair share of issues. We hope that these flaws will inspire others to come up with better ideas.
This way of working also means that we don't offer any production guarantees, and recommend to use Locutus inspiration and learning purposes only.
Notes
The variable callableName cannot work as a string variable passed by reference as in PHP (since JavaScript does not support passing strings by reference), but instead will take the name of a global variable and set that instead. When used on an object, depends on a constructor property being kept on the object prototype
Depending on the
callableName
that is passed, this function can use eval. The eval input is however checked to only allow valid function names, So it should not be unsafer than uses without eval (seeing as you can) already pass any function to be executed here.
Examples
Please note that these examples are distilled from test cases that automatically verify our functions still work correctly. This could explain some quirky ones.
# | code | expected result |
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1 | is_callable('is_callable') | true |
2 | is_callable('bogusFunction', true) | true // gives true because does not do strict checking |
3 | function SomeClass () {}
SomeClass.prototype.someMethod = function (){}
var testObj = new SomeClass()
is_callable([testObj, 'someMethod'], true, 'myVar')
var $result = myVar | 'SomeClass::someMethod' |
4 | is_callable(function () {}) | true |
5 | is_callable(class MyClass {}) | false |
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