Overloaded Functions in PHP?

[Bob]

Does PHP support overloaded functions?

This is very handy in C/C++...

I wrote a script with overloaded functions, but but I get an error when trying to run it.

Just curious if anybody know the definitive answer.

-Bob

[mikesherov]

bob, no overloaded functions in PHP, but you can use "defaults"

function hello($var1,$var2='hi'){
if($var2=="hi") print "hello:";
print $var1;
}

hello('dude'); prints "hello: dude"
hello('dude','hi'); prints "hello: dude"
hello('dude','something'); prints "dude"