Getting the name of a child class in the parent class (static context)

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You don’t need to wait for PHP 5.3 if you’re able to conceive of a way to do this outside of a static context. In php 5.2.9, in a non-static method of the parent class, you can do:

get_class($this);

and it will return the name of the child class as a string.

i.e.

class Parent() {
    function __construct() {
        echo 'Parent class: ' . get_class() . "\n" . 'Child class: ' . get_class($this);
    }
}

class Child() {
    function __construct() {
        parent::construct();
    }
}

$x = new Child();

this will output:

Parent class: Parent
Child class: Child

sweet huh?

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