This should work for you then....(maybe...i don't have php5 on my system, so it may not, but i think it would. http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.get-class.php
class Car { function drive() { return get_class($this); } }
class Porshe { }
$foo = new Porshe(); echo $foo->drive();
Chris, I was thinking of this as well. Except that the method drive is actually a static method so the class definition for Car is (I'm assuming) more like this:
<?php
class Car { static function drive() { /** I am a static function, so $this should not exist! */ /** However, class constants and static variables are available */ } }
class Porsche extends Car { } Porsche::drive();
?>
Torsten, I also found the following link to be helpful. Check out the user notes from michael at digitalgnosis dot removethis dot com (he did something similar to what I have already suggested, i.e. call_user_func)
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.static.php
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