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?
>
It's an extension but may be worth a look:
http://us.php.net/manual/en/ref.apd.php
-Shawn
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