this creates an nasty zend_mm_heap corrupted message in apache error log and an nice Segmentation fault.

view.php

<?php

class View {
	
	/**
	 * render the view 
	 */
	public function render() {		
		if($this->vars)
			@extract($this->vars);
		if( !file_exists( $this->viewFile ) ) return;
			require ( $this->viewFile );
	}	
	
	public function render($viewPath, $vars) {	
		var_dump($viewPath);
		var_dump($vars);	
	}
	
}

?>