overloading - different versions of php

[butterfly]

Hi,
I have used PHP for many years but only started using OO and hope that someone can help with the following.

I have taken on someone else's code for a site and there is a class that contains 2 functions with the same name. This has been working fine with PHP 4.1.2 but the web hosting just upgraded to PHP 4.3.6 and now we are getting a 'Fatal Error: Can't redclare blah....'.

class className
{
function test($a, $b) {
....
//returns true or false depending on certain conditions
}

function test($a = false) {
$this->_access = $a;
}
}

Thanks in advance

[drew010]

i guess you were lucky before because php doesn't support function overloading.

Originally posted by the php manual

"PHP does not support function overloading, nor is it possible to undefine or redefine previously-declared functions."