How do I get class name in PHP

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public class MyClass        In Java  we can get class name with String className   MyClass class getSimpleName     How to do this in PHP  I already know get class    but it works only for objects  Currently I work in Active Record  I need statement like MyClass  className

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lt  php namespace CMS  class Model     const  class     CLASS       echo Model   class     will return  CMS Model    for older than PHP 5 5

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end preg split                 Class Name  class    Class Name  class  return the class with the namespace  So after you only need to create an array  then get the last value of the array

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To get class name you can use ReflectionClass   class MyClass       public function myNameIs            return  new  ReflectionClass  this  - gt getShortName

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It sounds like you answered your own question  get class will get you the class name  It is procedural and maybe that is what is causing the confusion  Take a look at the php documentation for get class  Here is their example     lt  php   class foo          function name                   echo  My name is     get class  this      n                  create an object   bar   new foo         external call  echo  Its name is     get class  bar      n      It s name is foo      internal call   bar- gt name       My name is foo   To make it more like your example you could do something like     lt  php   class MyClass           public static function getClass                        return get class                  Now you can do     className   MyClass  getClass      This is somewhat limited  however  because if my class is extended it will still return  MyClass   We can use get called class instead  which relies on Late Static Binding  a relatively new feature  and requires PHP    5 3    lt  php  class MyClass       public static function getClass                 return get called class               public static function getDefiningClass                 return get class             class MyExtendedClass extends MyClass      className   MyClass  getClass        MyClass   className   MyExtendedClass  getClass        MyExtendedClass   className   MyExtendedClass  getDefiningClass        MyClass

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I think it s important to mention little difference between  self  and  static  in PHP as  best answer  uses  static  which can give confusing result to some people    lt  php class X       function getStatic                gets THIS class of instance of object            that extends class in which is definied function         return static  class            function getSelf                gets THIS class of class in which function is declared         return self  class           class Y extends X     class Z extends Y       x   new X     y   new Y     z   new Z     echo  X      x- gt getStatic             x- gt getSelf             Y       y- gt getStatic             y- gt getSelf             Z       z- gt getStatic             z- gt getSelf      Results   X  X  X Y  Y  X Z  Z  X

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This will return pure class name even when using namespace  echo substr strrchr   CLASS     quot    quot    1

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It looks like ReflectionClass is a pretty productive option   class MyClass       public function test                 MyClass          return  new  ReflectionClass  this  - gt getShortName              Benchmark   Method Name      Iterations    Average Time      Ops second --------------  ------------  --------------    ------------- testExplode      10 000       0 0000020221710   494 518 01547  testSubstring    10 000       0 0000017177343   582 162 19968  testReflection   10 000       0 0000015984058   625 623 34059

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Since PHP 5 5 you can use class name resolution via ClassName  class   See new features of PHP5 5    lt  php  namespace Name Space   class ClassName     echo ClassName  class     gt    If you want to use this feature in your class method use static  class    lt  php  namespace Name Space   class ClassName                 return string           public function getNameOfClass              return static  class           obj   new ClassName    echo  obj- gt getNameOfClass       gt    For older versions of PHP  you can use get class

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Now  I have answer for my problem  Thanks to Brad for the link  I find the answer here  And thanks to J Money for the idea  My solution    lt  php  class Model       public static function getClassName             return get called class             class Product extends Model     class User extends Model     echo Product  getClassName        Product   echo User  getClassName        User

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You can use   CLASS   within a class to get the name   http   php net manual en language constants predefined php

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