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<note>

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PHP's interpretation of <quote>overloading</quote> is

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different than most object oriented languages. Overloading

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different than most object-oriented languages. Overloading

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traditionally provides the ability to have multiple methods

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with the same name but different quantities and types of

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PHP will not call an overloaded method from within the same overloaded method.

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That means, for example, writing <code>return $this->foo</code> inside of

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<link linkend="object.get">__get()</link> will return <literal>null</literal>

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and raise an <constant>E_WARNING</constant> if there is no <literal>foo</literal> property defined,

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rather than calling <link linkend="object.get">__get()</link> a second time.

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However, overload methods may invoke other overload methods implicitly (such as

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<link linkend="object.set">__set()</link> triggering <link linkend="object.get">__get()</link>).

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<example>

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Overloading properties via the <link linkend="object.get">__get()</link>,

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$obj->a = 1;

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