What does the php function 'overload' do?

methods, php

Solution

It basically enables the magic accessor methods such as `__get()`, `__set()`, etc.

Since PHP5 this is no longer necessary and enabled by default. In fact, you can't switch it off ;-)

Problem

According to the PHP documentation: The overload() function will enable property and method call overloading for a class identified by class_name. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.overload.php But what does that mean exactly? Does it mean I can do proper overloading on that class (like Java's overloading)?

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