Re: can you get the name of an object from within it's own class?

It's not possible, imagine $firstname = new flashPash(); $secondname = $firstname; Now is the log name secondname.log or firstname.log. Use new property. Simon McKenna wrote:

Hi all, I'm new to the php world and have just finished building my first class, It works pretty well, but i've run into a quandary adding debug code, my problem is thus: Many objects get created by this class, often in the same php script, and the debug log is an actual file. At the moment i'm naming the file after the name of the class, but what I would really like to do is name the log file after the name of the object instantiated from the class. e.g. class flashPash { .... $this->fpLog = fopen("flashPash.log","w+"); .... function debugLog($LogMsg) { if (($this->debug == true) && (!empty($this->fpLog))) fwrite($this->fpLog,$LogMsg."\n"); } } $fpObject = new flashPash(); $fpObject->debug = true; .... so...is there a way I can get the variable name "fpObject" from within flashPash itself? i.e. so I can make the logfile "fpObject.log" instead of "flashPash.log" I realise it would be trivial to create a new property of the class to store the debug log filename, but i'm hoping I can avoid this? "get_object_vars" & "get_class" appear to be heading in the right direction...but not quite...so...any ideas? is this actually possible? I kinda want to go down the hierarchical tree, instead of going up it :) thanks for any help. php rocks! si