Re: Unexpected behaviuor with __CLASS__
| From: | Robin Vickery | Date: | Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:49:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Unexpected behaviuor with __CLASS__ | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:49:31 +0200, Torsten Roehr <roehr@zilleon.com> wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> on RedHat with PHP 4.3.6 the following code produces 'test' - I'm expecting
> 'test2':
>
> class test {
> function printClass() {
> echo __CLASS__;
> }
> }
>
> class test2 extends test {
> }
>
> test2::printClass();
>
> I would like to get/echo the name of the class calling the method - in my
> case test2. Any ideas?
If you were using objects rather than class methods you could replace
__CLASS__ with get_class($this) ...but you're not.
you could use debug_backtrace()
function printClass()
{
$details = array_shift(debug_backtrace());
print $details['class'];
}
-robin