Faking Late Static Binding before php 5.3

Question

I need an inherited static function \"call\" to call another static function \"inner\" that has been overridden. I could do this with late static binding, but my host does

Answer 1

If performance is not an issue, you can use debug_backtrace() to find the called class:

$bt = debug_backtrace();
return get_class($bt[1]['object']); 

http://php.net/manual/en/function.debug-backtrace.php