Re: [PHP] Re: function over loading?

2002-05-12 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Sun, 12 May 2002, Smileyq wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kris Vose) wrote: >> Can you practice function over-loading in php? > > No you cannot overload in PHP. In a particularly masochistic project, we achieved function overloading by creating a global array $F that linked public to hidden names

Re: [PHP] Re: function over loading?

2002-05-12 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Well, not in the procedural sense, but you can do method and property overloading on objects. See http://php.net/overload -Rasmus On Sun, 12 May 2002, Smileyq wrote: > In article > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kris Vose) wrote: > > > Can you practice function over-loading in php?

RE: [PHP] Re: function over loading?

2002-05-12 Thread Jason Murray
> > Can you practice function over-loading in php? > > No you cannot overload in PHP. You can achieve the same effect (having the same function do something else in a different circumstance) by making parameters optional: $param1 is required, $param2 is optional - if its not supplied when the