Re: Re: Get name of extending class with static method call

Christopher Fulton wrote:

This should work for you then....(maybe...i don't have php5 on my system, so it may not, but i think it would. http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.get-class.php class Car {

        function drive() {
             return get_class($this);
        }

} class Porshe { } $foo = new Porshe(); echo $foo->drive();

Chris, I was thinking of this as well. Except that the method drive is actually a static method so the class definition for Car is (I'm assuming) more like this: <?php class Car { static function drive() {

    /** I am a static function, so $this should not exist! */
    /** However, class constants and static variables are available */

} } class Porsche extends Car { } Porsche::drive(); ?> Torsten, I also found the following link to be helpful. Check out the user notes from michael at digitalgnosis dot removethis dot com (he did something similar to what I have already suggested, i.e. call_user_func) http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.static.php -- Teach a person to fish... Ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html PHP Manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php php-general archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&w=2