A bit hackish method, of getting named arguments in PHP

gistfile1.php

<?php
class NamedArguments {

    static function init($args) {
        $assoc = reset($args);
        if (is_array($assoc)) {
            $diff = array_diff(array_keys($assoc), array_keys($args));
            if (empty($diff)) return $assoc;
            trigger_error('Bad parameters: '.join(',',$diff), E_USER_ERROR);
        }
        return array();
    }

}

class Test {

    public static function foobar($required, $optional1 = '', $optional2 = '') {
        extract(NamedArguments::init(get_defined_vars()));
        printf("required: %s, optional1: %s, optional2: %s\n", $required, $optional1, $optional2);
    }

}

Test::foobar("required", "optional1", "optional2");
Test::foobar(array(
    'required' => 'required', 
    'optional1' => 'optional1', 
    'optional2' => 'optional2'
    ));
?>