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

Two variations on Preston's answer:

1)

class Base 
{
    public static function find($id)
    {
        $table = static::$_table;
        $class = static::$_class;
        $data = array('table' => $table, 'id' => $id);
        return new $class($data);
    }
}

class User extends Base
{
    public static $_class = 'User';
}

2)

class Base 
{
    public static function _find($class, $id)
    {
        $table = static::$_table;
        $data = array('table' => $table, 'id' => $id);
        return new $class($data);
    }
}

class User extends Base
{
    public static function find($id)
    {
        return self::_find(get_class($this), $id);
    }
}

Note: starting a property name with _ is a convention that basically means "i know i made this public, but it really should have been protected, but i couldn't do that and achieve my goal"