How to get name of calling function/method in PHP? [duplicate]

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The simplest way is:

echo debug_backtrace()[1]['function'];

As noted in the comments below, this can be further optimized by passing arguments to:

  • omit both the object and args indices
  • limit the number of stack frames returned
echo debug_backtrace(!DEBUG_BACKTRACE_PROVIDE_OBJECT|DEBUG_BACKTRACE_IGNORE_ARGS,2)[1]['function'];

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