On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:49:31 +0200, Torsten Roehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> on RedHat with PHP 4.3.6 the following code produces 'test' - I'm expecting
> 'test2':
> 
> class test {
>     function printClass() {
>         echo __CLASS__;
>     }
> }
> 
> class test2 extends test {
> }
> 
> test2::printClass();
> 
> I would like to get/echo the name of the class calling the method - in my
> case test2. Any ideas?

If you were using objects rather than class methods you could replace
__CLASS__ with  get_class($this) ...but you're not.

you could use debug_backtrace()

function printClass()
{
   $details = array_shift(debug_backtrace());
   print $details['class'];
}

  -robin

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