creating two methods with the same name won't work for sure (maybe in next versions i hope)
but for now all i could come up with something that looks like overloaded functions from the outside but still makes it a bit difficult for the one who's coding the actual class
as we can see in the code bellow i've used a default value for the $name argument, so when the Test() method is called with no arguments the $name argument is by default passed as NULL (or any value you wanna pass)
<?php
class Test
{
function Test($name=NULL)
{
echo 'Hello, ';
if($name)
{
echo $name.'<br>';
}
else
{
echo 'stranger<br>';
}
}
}
$t1=new Test(); // Output : Hello, stranger
$t2=new Test('Osman Kalache'); // Output : Hello, Osman Kalache
?>
the bad side of this trick is that you have to test your arguments (imagine how many IFs and ELSEs you get if you had just 5 arguments)
but still makes your classes easy to use.
overload
(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0)
overload — Active la couche de contrôle des membres et méthodes
Description
void overload
( string $class_name
)
overload() active le contrôle des accesseurs et appels de méthodes pour la classe class_name .
Liste de paramètres
- class_name
-
Le nom de la classe surchargée, sous la forme d'une chaîne de caractères
Valeurs de retour
Aucune valeur n'est retournée.
Exemples
Voir un exemple dans la section d'introduction de cette partie.
overload
osminosm at gmail dot com
22-Jan-2009 03:22
22-Jan-2009 03:22
tim at e2-media dot co dot nz
08-Jun-2008 11:35
08-Jun-2008 11:35
Note that this function is totally pointless in php5. All it does is set up the same behaviour for a php4 class that already exists in php5.
