PHP two methods with the same name

Question

Can I have two methods sharing the same name, but with different arguments?

One would be public static and would take 2 arguments, the other one just public and takes only one argument

example

class product{

  protected
    $product_id;

  public function __construct($product_id){
    $this->product_id = $product_id;
  }

  public static function getPrice($product_id, $currency){
    ...
  }

  public function getPrice($currency){
    ...
  }

}

Answer 1

No. PHP does not support classic overloading. (It does implement something else that is called overloading.)

You can get the same result by using func_get_args() and it's related functions though:

function ech()
{
  $a = func_get_args();
  for( $t=0;$t<count($a); $t++ )
  {
    echo $a[$t];
  }
}