Is it possible to “escape” a method name in PHP, to be able to have a method name that clashes with a reserved keyword?

Question

I\'m doing MVC in PHP, and i\'d like to have a list() method inside my Controller, to have the URL /entity/list/parent_id, to show all the \"x\" that belong to that parent.<

Answer 1

With variable names you can use the bracket signs:

${'array'} = "test";
echo ${'array'};

But PHP does not provide a method for escaping function names.

If you want a 'user-defined' way of getting around this, check out this comment:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.keywords.php#93368