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[Ben Sgro]

Yup,

I figured I'd go down that path. It just adds extra logic, because in one
case the 1st arg is an array, in the other its a bunch of strings.

Ok, so you the answer is "no", you can't do method overloading in php?

- Ben

Kenneth Downs wrote:
> Ben Sgro wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Reading a java book on OOP, I wanted to do this in php:
>>
>> class foo
>> {
>>    public function bar($string){...}
>>    public function bar($string, $int, $array) {...}
>> }
>>
>>
>> It should provide different "signatures" and allow method overloading...
>> Why not in php?
>
> I can't answer the "why", but you can get to the same place by 
> providing default values:
>
> class foo {
>    public function bar ($string,$int=0,$array=array()) { ... }
> }
>
>>
>> Is that not built in?
>>
>> - Ben
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