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Update I have continued with patterns into JavaScript Override Patterns . We all know JavaScript does not implement a native methods overload concept and what we usually do on daily basis is to emulate somehow this Classic OOP behavior. There are several ways to do it, all of them with pros and cons, but what is the best way to implement it? A common situation Let's imagine we would like to have a method able to accept different arguments types and return something accordingly with what we received. Usually in Classic OOP an overload cannot redefine the returned type but in JavaScript we can do " whatever we want ", trying to be still consistent, so that we can consider us more lucky than C# or Java guys, as more flexible as well. For this post, the behavior we would like to obtain will be similar to the one we can find in jQuery library, one of the most used, famous, and friendly libraries I know. // create an instance var me = new Person(); // set some property // vi...

Just a quick post about Strict standard error when we have a class method which would like to behave differently if called statically. Apparently, and this is a truly old bogus I opened ages ago , the solution was to supress Strict errors (lol, thanks developers) even if in every other programming language, via overload, this kind of situation could be solved in a bit. How to solve the problem? While last post I suggested a couple of runtime solutions, this time I suggest to simply avoid the method definition and use a different one with a meaningful name. In this example I created a String class: class String { // choose a recognizable name for protected method static protected function _concat(array $arguments){ return new self(implode('', $arguments)); } // use magic __callStatic function static public function __callStatic($name, array $arguments){ // check the recognizable name switch($name = '_'.$name){ ...