On Wed, 1 May 2002, CC Zona wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joshua E Minnie) wrote: > > > Does anybody know of any constants or predefined functions that will > > retrieve the calling functions name? For example: > > > > <? > > function new_func($somedata) { > > echo "I am function ".get_func_name(); > > } > > ?> > > What would be the point of this? How could you call the function to get > the info without already having the info in the first place? If calling > with a variable ("$foo();"), then you have the variable. If the call is > hardcoded ("new_func();") then of course you know the name there too. > Perhaps if you explained what you're trying to accomplish...
I'm guessing he wants to do something like a stack trace to figure out how a function managed to get itself called with bad data. With utility functions that may get called hundreds of times in a single run, that would be some really handy stuff. miguel -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
