how 2 get the name of the funciton i'm in

[Steffel]

Hi,
I'm searching for a way to get the name of the function I'm actually in.
I need this to write a logfile
e.g. I got a user class

class User extends BaseBean
{
$var name;

function setName($my_name)
{
$this->name = $my_name;
logData(get_class($this), $function_I_need())
}
}

the result shold be a print out like
date: User --> setName
in the logfile

but I don't know how to get the name of this function ($function_I_need())

plz help me...!

[fukas]

There is no way, how to do it. Perhaps.
You can use this, it's simple to find a error:

 log_func(ERROR_CODE,'Error msg:',__FILE__,__LINE__);

[daveyboy]

The simplest way is to just pass the name of the function you're in to your logging function. In version 4 you can look at the members of a class, but that's not always so useful in PHP unless you always use OO.

If you really need proper introspection, you'll have to upgrade to Ruby or Python 😉