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To: Torsten Roehr <roehr@zilleon.com>
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Reply-To: Derrell.Lipman@UnwiredUniverse.com
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:35:24 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20050112155751.33379.qmail@pb1.pair.com> (Torsten Roehr's
	message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:58:20 +0100")
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Get name of extending class with static method call
	(PHP5)
From: Derrell.Lipman@UnwiredUniverse.com

"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();