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Note Submitter: michael dot bommarito at gmail dot com ---- Posted this on the function-handling function page, but it seems it's a topic here too. I've developed an easy-to-use hack using these functions to emulate overloaded functions. It's especially handy for constructors and/or C++ style templating. Here's a little example to get you going. This does the trick for most circumstances, and if you need more intelligent parsing, it's not too hard to implement with regex or a more suitable classification scheme. N.B. Note the lack of whitespace between variable types in case strings. class Matrix { ... function Matrix() { $args = func_get_args(); $argmatch = implode(",", array_map('gettype', $args)); switch( $argmatch ) { case 'integer,integer': //initialize m x n matrix break; case 'integer,integer,integer': //initialize m x n matrix with constant c break; case 'integer,integer,float': //initialize m x n matrix with constant c break; case 'array': //initialize from array (2D....) break; case 'array,integer': //intialize from array (1D packed with m rows) break; default: //(void) overload? //error handling? break; } } ... }