Would something like this work for you?
class foo
{
public function bar($arg1, $arg2, $arg3=null)
{
if (isset($arg3)){
{
return $this->_bar3($arg1, $arg2, $arg3);
} else {
return $this->_bar2($arg1, $arg2);
}
}
also you may want to look into the func_get_args function.
Chris.
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Ashley Sheridan
<ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I know that some languages such as C++ can overload functions and
> methods by declaring the method again with a different number of
> arguments, and the compiler internally sorts things out, but I can't
> seem to find a similar way to do this with PHP.
>
> Basically, what I've got at the moment is a class method with 2
> arguments, and I need to be able to overload the method with 3
> arguments. The following which would work in other languages doesn't
> seem to bring any joy in PHP:
>
> class foo
> {
> public function bar($arg1, $arg2)
> {
> // do something with $arg1 & $arg2
> }
>
> public function bar($arg1, $arg2, $arg3)
> {
> // do something different with all 3 args
> }
> }
>
> Is there any feasible way of doing this? The method names really need to
> remain the same as they exist as part of a framework, but the arguments
> really server quite different purposes between the two methods, so
> there's no nice way of just merging the two functions without breaking
> the naming conventions, etc used.
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
>
