What is the current status of function overloading in PHP?

Function overloading is not directly supported in PHP. However, you can achieve similar functionality by using variable-length argument lists and conditional logic within the function to handle different parameter combinations. 

function exampleFunction() {
    $numArgs = func_num_args();
    
    if($numArgs == 1) {
        $arg1 = func_get_arg(0);
        // handle logic for one argument
    } elseif($numArgs == 2) {
        $arg1 = func_get_arg(0);
        $arg2 = func_get_arg(1);
        // handle logic for two arguments
    } else {
        // handle logic for other cases
    }
}

// Example usage
exampleFunction(1);
exampleFunction(2, 'test');

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