Getting the class name of the constructing class [duplicate]

Question

Possible Duplicate:
Get class name from extended class

Suppose I have the following:

class Foo
{
  public $name;

  public __construct()
  {
    $this->name = __CLASS__;
  }
}

class Bar extends Foo
{
}

class FooBar extends Foo
{
}

$bar = new Bar();
echo $bar->name; // will output 'Foo', but I want 'Bar'

$foobar = new FooBar();
echo $foobar->name; // will output 'Foo', but I want 'FooBar'

Is there a way to get the name of the constructing class, without setting the name in a extended class e.g. setting the name in class Foo?

Note: I have a lot of classed derived from Foo, setting the name in every derived class would be a lot of coding.

Answer 1

public function __construct() {
    $this->name = get_class($this);
}

http://php.net/get_class

Answer 2

This is very easy: just use get_called_class:

$this->name = get_called_class();

This is part of the late static binding features introduced in PHP 5.3. It refers to the class called, rather than the class where the method is defined.