determining the class of a static method

[dash2]

class Foo {

  function baz() {
    echo "How can I tell whether I was called as Foo::baz() or Bar::baz()?";
  }
}

class Bar extends Foo {

}

Foo::baz();
Bar::baz();

The reason for this, in case anybody is interested, is so that I can have a single static factory method in a superclass which automatically knows what class of object to create. At the moment I have to do something like:

class Subclass extends Parent {

  function create() {
    parent::_create(__CLASS__);
  }
}

which gets pretty boring after the first five subclasses! Is there a better way?

Dave

[Bah__Name]

Baz might be able to take an argument, a Me.Name sort of thing.

class Foo {

  function baz($Name) {
    echo "How can I tell whether I was called as Foo::baz() or Bar::baz()?";
  }
}

class Bar extends Foo {

}

Foo::baz("Foo");
Bar::baz("Baz");
//Or possibly 
//Bar::baz(class.name), if there is such a thing

Not sure if this helps.

[dash2]

That's exactly what I am doing at the moment, except that I have put the string argument into a private method (so I only have to put it in all my subclasses, rather than everywhere in my code). See my second code snippet.