note 70976 deleted from language.oop5.constants by danbrown

Note Submitter: lucas dot s at ono dot com ---- In the same way "define()" can be used to create a GLOBAL constant that can be assigned as the value of a CLASS constant (like anonymous (31-May-2006 10:03) noted a few posts back), MAGIC constants (__LINE__, __FILE__, etc.) can also be assigned to a CLASS constant :-) Note that an instance of ReflectionClass can be used to obtain the exact same info that magic constants can offer you... <?php class MyClass { const FILE_I_AM_IN = __FILE__; } echo MyClass::FILE_I_AM_IN; ?> This outputs the file the class definition is located in, as expected. Notes on the other magic constants: __LINE__ = does output the correct line but... is of course completely useless... __FUNCTION__ = does not output anything. __METHOD__ = outputs the class name!