Getting the name of a child class in the parent class (static context)

Question

I\'m building an ORM library with reuse and simplicity in mind; everything goes fine except that I got stuck by a stupid inheritance limitation. Please consider the code bel

Answer 1

I know its old post but want to share the solution I have found.

Tested with PHP 7+ Use the function get_class()link

The above example will output:

string(3) "foo"
string(3) "bar"