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

> 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 Hi Jason, thanks for the link. It helped me to find out that this does work: class Car { function drive() { echo '<pre>';print_r(debug_backtrace()); } } class Porsche extends Car { function drive() { parent::drive(); } } By "tunnelling" the call through Porsche's own drive() method debug_backtrace() will contain two traces, one of them with the correct class name. I tried using reflection but "reflecting" car by using __CLASS__ doesn't give any information about the classes that extend it. So this doesn't work either. Rory's proposed way of reading in the file contents and preg_matching the method name works, but it's very, very ugly, indeed! ;) Isn't it somewhat ridiculous that there is no *easy* way in PHP5 to achieve what I consider to be a pretty straightforward requirement?: "Get name of the class that invoked a static call of an inherited method" I would like to thank all of those that cared about my problem and tried to find a solution by providing a wide variety of ideas. Thank you very much!!! Do you think it would be wise to ask for help on php-dev? Best regards, Torsten