Re: getting a function name of the calling function

From: Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 00:43:42 +0000
Subject: Re: getting a function name of the calling function
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I don't know of a way to print out the function name. But for error detection purposes, can you use __FILE__ and __LINE__ as alternatives? For example: echo "I am line" . __LINE__ . " at file " . __FILE__ . "\n"; Brian "Joshua E Minnie" <josh@acsurf.net> wrote in message news:20020501201523.38494.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > I actually need it to print out the name of itself for error detection > purposes. > > > > Does anybody know of any constants or predefined functions that will > > > retrieve the calling functions name? For example: > > > > > > <? > > > function new_func($somedata) { > > > echo "I am function ".get_func_name(); > > > } > > > ?> > > This example should print out: > I am function new_func > > Is this possible? > >

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