Re: Getting the name of a function

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At 10:56 AM -0800 2/27/08, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
For my own amusement, I'm writing a function that will print out detailed
error messages for an API that I'm creating for a minor project.  One of the
pieces of information I'd like to return would be the name of the function
that called the error function. For example:

<?php
function error ($message) {
    print "The error message is $message";
    print "The function that called the error was: [INSERT COOL CODE HERE]";
}

function bad_function($param) {
    error ("This is dumb");
    return false;
}

bad_function("blah");
?>

Ideally this script would print this out:

The error message is This is dumb
The function that called the error was bad_function

I know that I could pass the name of the function as a parameter to the
error() function (e.g. error("bad_function","This is dumb")) but I'd rather
keep it simpler than that.

Is there a way to do this?

Try

get_defined_functions()

Also, remember __LINE__ and __FILE__

They help a lot to find out where something went wrong.

Cheers,

tedd


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