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.
Right... the root issue here seems to be that everything is relying on the __CLASS__ macro, but this macro behaves differently than what you expected (a la debug_backtrace in PHP4)
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"
Indeed! I was actually quite surprised that this wasn't the way __CLASS__ resolved... I had to code it to believe it (and I didn't even do that until after you told us __CLASS__ didn't work!)
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?
Perhaps the way to go about this would be to make a "feature request" on bugs.php.net? It does seem like something that should be a part of the language.
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