Getting the name of a child class in PHP

Question

Lets say I\'m building a base class which will be extended upon by the children class. So a base class is called Base and children can be Child1, <

Answer 1

A base class should really never depend on information about child classes---

To answer your question:

class base {
    public function __construct() {
        print "Class:" . get_class($this) . "\n";
    }
}

class child extends base{
    public function __construct() {
        parent::__construct();
    }
}
$c = new child();

Just for future reference -- this can be acheived in a static context using get_called_class(), but this is only available in PHP >= 5.3