Re: Get name of extending class with static method call(PHP5)

Hi, one may use __CLASS__ instead of get_class(). Andrey Torsten Roehr wrote:

-----Original Message----- From: Derrell.Lipman@UnwiredUniverse.com [mailto:Derrell.Lipman@UnwiredUniverse.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 6:35 PM To: Torsten Roehr Cc: internals@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Get name of extending class with static method call(PHP5) "Torsten Roehr" <roehr@zilleon.com> writes:

Hi devs, after a long discussion on php-general [1], searching the archives and trying every proposed solution without success I'm asking for

your help to

solve the following problem: class Car { function drive() {

       // I need the name of the calling class here
       // in my case it should be 'Porsche'

} } class Porsche extends Car { } Porsche::drive();

You're previous thread says that you want drive() to be static, but you're not declaring it static. If it needn't be static, then you can do this: class Car { function drive() {

       echo get_class($this) . "\n";

} } class Porsche extends Car { } $carType = new Porsche(); $carType->drive();

Hi Derrell, you are right, but I just forgot to declare it static. Unfortunately this doesn't change the situation - I still need it as a static call and therefore cannot use get_class(). Best regards, Torsten Roehr