Overloading methods with types in PHP and above. The way it should be.

PHP 7.4 introduces type hints, which makes the PHP programming experience closer to languages ​​like Java or C#, which is great! However, I found that I can't overload methods like I can in other typed language projects.

The solutions provided on Stack Overflow were not satisfactory, so I thought about how to overload methods in the most efficient and concise way, and created a support library for this. I wanted to share it with you because it might be the best solution you can find. You can get it on GitHub and learn more.

I think the short code snippet below is enough to understand how it works.

<code class="language-php">$userRepository = new UserRepository();
$userRepository->add('Micheal', 'Jordan', 23);
$userRepository->add('Micheal Jordan', 23);
$userRepository->add(new User("Micheal", "Jordan", 23));
$userRepository->add(new UserDto("Micheal", "Jordan", 23));
$userRepository->add(['fist_name' => 'Micheal', 'last_name' => 'Jordan', 'number' => 23]);</code>

<code class="language-php">public function add(mixed ...$args): void
{
    $addMethodOverloader = MethodOverloader::create($this)
        ->register($this->addByFirstNameLastNameAndNumber(...), 'string', 'string', 'int')
        ->register($this->adddByUser(...), User::class)
        ->register($this->addByUserDto(...), UserDto::class)
        ->register($this->addByArray(...), 'array')
        ->register($this->addNyNameAndNumber(...), 'string', 'int')
        ->onFailure(function() {
            throw new MyCustomException();
        });

    $addMethodOverloader->invoke($args);
}</code>

This is my first post, please tell me if it's ok. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

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