[dev] Fwd: Re: [PHP-DEV] New exceptions mechanism

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Seems like this (__CLASS__) ought to be quite useful to us somewhere.

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    Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 23:27:02 +0100
    From: "Stig S. Bakken" <stig at php.net>
Reply-To: "Stig S. Bakken" <stig at php.net>
 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] New exceptions mechanism
      To: Adam Bregenzer <adam at bregenzer.net>

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 22:47, Adam Bregenzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:12, Ferdinand Beyer wrote:
> > If you try to access $this in staticMethod() it will certainly be the
> > same as $obj.
>
> I apologize if this is OT or just generally inappropriate for the
> internal list, but I had a question in the general list that is related
> to this.  I was wondering if it was possible to retrieve the class name
> (i.e. class_name($this)) from within a static method.  In php4
> var_dump($this) in a static method returns NULL.  Has this changed in
> php5, and if so what class name will it return when the static method is
> called from an extended class?
>
> Here is my post for reference:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=107575408628272&w=2
>
> If there is another way to achieve what I am looking for I would be very
> appreciative if someone could point me in the right direction.

Try __CLASS__.

 - Stig

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-chuck

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