oop - Getting the name of a child class in PHP

Question

Lets say I'm building a base class which will be extended upon by the children class. So a base class is called Base and children can be Child1, Child2, etc.

In the base class's constructor, how can i get the value of Child1/Child2?

This is all using PHP

Answer 1

simply call get_class($this) - note however that a base class method has no real business in changing its behaviour depending on which derived class is using it. That's the whole point of deriving a class :)