Re: Getting the name of a function

At 10:56 AM -0800 2/27/08, Richard S. Crawford wrote:

For my own amusement, I'm writing a function that will print out detailed error messages for an API that I'm creating for a minor project. One of the pieces of information I'd like to return would be the name of the function that called the error function. For example: <?php function error ($message) {

    print "The error message is $message";
    print "The function that called the error was: [INSERT COOL CODE HERE]";

} function bad_function($param) {

    error ("This is dumb");
    return false;

} bad_function("blah"); ?> Ideally this script would print this out: The error message is This is dumb The function that called the error was bad_function I know that I could pass the name of the function as a parameter to the error() function (e.g. error("bad_function","This is dumb")) but I'd rather keep it simpler than that. Is there a way to do this?

Try get_defined_functions() Also, remember __LINE__ and __FILE__ They help a lot to find out where something went wrong. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com