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

In case you don't want to use get_called_class() you can use other tricks of late static binding (PHP 5.3+). But the downside in this case you need to have getClass() method in every model. Which is not a big deal IMO.

 $table, 'id' => $id);
        return new $class($data);
    }

    public function __construct($data)
    {
        echo get_class($this) . ': ' . print_r($data, true) . PHP_EOL;
    }
}

class User extends Base
{
    protected static $_table = 'users';

    public static function getClass()
    {
        return __CLASS__;
    }
}

class Image extends Base
{
    protected static $_table = 'images';

    public static function getClass()
    {
        return __CLASS__;
    }
}

$user = User::find(1); // User: Array ([table] => users [id] => 1)  
$image = Image::find(5); // Image: Array ([table] => images [id] => 5)