Re: How to get the child name from within the parent?

Robert.Degen@rwth-aachen.de wrote:

----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ----- Von: Mathijs <mathijs.van.veluw@smscity.com> Datum: Montag, September 10, 2007 3:19 pm Betreff: [PHP] How to get the child name from within the parent? An: php-general@lists.php.net

Hello there, Is there a way to get the child class name from within the parent method?

Yes.

If so, how?

1) If you abandon static'ness, you can use 'get_class($this)' within parent class' func. 2) Fizzle around with some 'self' as pass over argument. 3) or else..... But - I can't recognize any exigence. Could you describe *what* you wanna do so you must use this?

I need this because i want to make a default Flow-Control class. Other classes can extend from this flow class, and pass an array with the kind of flow they want. Some of these methods are in the child-class and there for i need its name. But i didn't checked non-static part yet. Going to try this. Thx.

Thx in advance. Example: class MyParent { public static function start() { // Do something like this???

return get_child_name(); // returns 'MyChild' in this case

I don't know this function. I couldn't even find it at php doc. WHAT is that ?

} } class MyChild extends MyParent {

public static childStart() {

public static function childStart() { Oeps, forgot that.

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So far. Rob