PHP: Define function with variable parameter count?

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Published on 2010-01-22T14:41:18Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 0:43 UTC
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Is there a way to define a function in PHP that lets you define a variable amount of parameters?

in the language I am more familiar with it is like so:

function myFunction(...rest){ /* rest == array of params */ return rest.length; }

myFunction("foo","bar"); // returns 2;

Thanks!

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