In this tutorial we will study about Invoke method of PHP, it is completely new kind of method and because of it's magical property it has been included in magical property of PHP. Examples in this tutorial will make it more clear.

__invoke():

PHP 5.3.0 has introduced lots of new methods,  __invoke() is one of them. The purpose of __invoke() method is different from others. With the help of this function we can call an object as functions and because of it's magical property it has been included in magic methods list of PHP.

So, let's try to evaluate what is it actually and how it works? Hope the following example will exemplify:

Example:

<?php

class A

{

public function __invoke($var){

var_dump($var);

echo"<br/>";

}

}

$obj=new A;

$obj(4);

$obj("Hello");

$obj(4.5);

echo "<b>is_callable() method is used to check whether an object can be called or not </b><br/>";

var_dump(is_callable($obj));

?>

Output:

int(4)
string(5) "Hello"
float(4.5)
is_callable() method is used to check whether an object can be called or not
bool(true)

Related Tags for PHP Invoke Method: