[RESOLVED] Using get_class in a parent to get the child's class

[wyattstorch42]

I have (oh so cleverly) begun to develop an object-oriented system using PHP that will correspond to my MySQL database. This is proving to be much more challenging because, despite PHP 5's attempts, this would've been ten thousand times easier to do with Java.

Let's say I have a class called [FONT="Lucida Console"]Base[/FONT]:

<?php
 abstract class Base{
  private $mySQL = array('host' => '', 'username' => '', 'password' => '', 'database' => '', 'connection' => null);
  protected $id;

  function __construct($id){
   $this->id = $id;

   foreach($this->mySQL as $key => &$value) $$key = $value;
   if(!$connection){
    $connection = mysql_connect($host, $username, $password);
    mysql_select_db($database);
   }
  }

  function delete(){
   $exe = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM '.get_class(/* ... */).' WHERE id = '.$this->id.';';
   return mysql_num_rows($exe);
  }

  abstract function delete_($id){
   $exe = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM '.get_class(/* ... */).' WHERE id = '.$id.';';
   return mysql_num_rows($exe);
  }
 }

 class User extends Base{
  function __construct($uid){
   parent::__construct($uid);
  }
 }
?>

Assuming [FONT="Lucida Console"]User[/FONT] is a table in my database, what can I put into the [FONT="Lucida Console"]get_class[/FONT] statement in the [FONT="Lucida Console"]Base[/FONT] class' [FONT="Lucida Console"]delete[/FONT] and [FONT="Lucida Console"]delete_[/FONT] functions so as to obtain the class name of the child class?

[wyattstorch42]

Oh wow, I just needed to look that over to get some common sense. Sorry, you can delete this topic from the board if you want.

 function __construct($uid){
  parent::__construct(get_class($this, $uid));
  }

 function __construct($class, $id){
  $this->class = $class;
  $this->id = $id;
  }

[NogDog]

I think get_class($this) ?

[NogDog]

Yep, this echoes "Bar":

<?php
abstract class Foo
{
   public function getName()
   {
      return get_class($this);
   }
}

class Bar extends Foo
{

}

$test = new Bar();
echo $test->getName();

[NogDog]

wyattstorch42;10988322 wrote:

Oh wow, I just needed to look that over to get some common sense. Sorry, you can delete this topic from the board if you want.

 function __construct($uid){
  parent::__construct(get_class($this, $uid));
  }

 function __construct($class, $id){
  $this->class = $class;
  $this->id = $id;
  }

Just saw this response after adding my two cents' worth. 🙂

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