sevavietl / overloaded-function
Function overloading wrapper for php.
Requires
- php: >=7.2
- thorough-php/type-guard: ^1.0
Requires (Dev)
- php-coveralls/php-coveralls: ^2.1
- phpstan/phpstan: ^0.10.3
- phpunit/phpunit: ^6.3
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Last update: 2025-04-10 04:03:37 UTC
README
PHP actually does not support function overloading, as functions distinguished but name only. This is a class that helps to imulate function overloading in PHP.
Table of Contents
General usage
Function cases provided as an array of callables, where key is a signature of parameters types.
1. Simple signature:
Parameters signature is a list of types separeted by comma.
$func = new OverloadedFunction([ 'integer, integer' => function ($a, $b) { return $a + $b; }, 'string, string' => function ($a, $b) { return $a . $b; } ]); var_dump($func(1, 1)) // => 2 var_dump($func('1', '1')) // => '11'
2. Union types:
Sometimes your parameter need to be of a kind, that implements not one interface, but several.
$func = new OverloadedFunction([ 'ArrayAccess&Countable' => function ($i) { return true; } ]); var_dump($func(new ArrayIterator)) // => bool(true)
3. Intersection types:
Sometimes you allow parameter to be not of one type, but of several types.
$func = new OverloadedFunction([ 'string|integer' => function ($i) { return true; } ]); var_dump($func(1)) // => bool(true) var_dump($func('1')) // => bool(true)
4. Typed arrays:
You can restrict your parameter to be an array of elements of certain types.
$func = new OverloadedFunction([ 'integer[]' => function ($arr) { return 'integer'; }, 'integer|string[]' => function ($arr) { return 'mixed'; } ]); var_dump($func([1, 2, 3])) // => string(7) "integer" var_dump($func([1, 2, '3'])) // => string(5) "mixed"
5. Optional parameters:
Sometimes you allow parameter to be optional. Make sure you provide default values for such cases.
$func = new OverloadedFunction([ '?integer' => function ($i = 1) { return $i; } ]); var_dump($func(1)) // => bool(true) var_dump($func()) // => bool(true)