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Operator Overloading in PHP

Is there a way to overload the = operator ?

So want I is the following:

class b{
    function overloadis(){
       // do somethng
    }
}

$a = new b();
$a = 'c';

In the example above, I want that when $a = ‘c’; is called, the method overloadis is called first and then that function desides if the action (assign ‘c’ to $a) is executed or aborted.

Is it possible to do this ?

Thnx in advance,
Bob

Answer 1

No. PHP doesn’t support operator overloading, with a few exceptions (as noted by @NikiC: “PHP supports overloading of some operators, like [], -> and (string) and also allows overloading some language constructs like foreach”).