Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55696&edit=1
ID: 55696
Comment by: ni...@php.net
Reported by: dohpaz dot php at dohpaz dot com
Summary: __CLASS__ includes the namespace definition
Status: Open
Type: Bug
Package: Unknown/Other Function
PHP Version: 5.3.8
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
As I see it "Foo\Bar" is the expected result. __CLASS__ returns the class name.
And the class name is "Foo\Bar", not "Bar".
An easy way to see this, is writing the following:
$class = __CLASS__;
$obj = new $class;
This typical example (which would obviously be better written as just "$obj =
new self;") would break if only "Bar" would be returned.
Previous Comments:
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[2011-09-14 20:48:27] dohpaz dot php at dohpaz dot com
Description:
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With the introduction of namespaces, the __CLASS__ magic constant has changed
(without being documented) to include the current namespace as part of the
class name. I submit that since there is a __NAMESPACE__ magic constant that
the __CLASS__ constant should be reverted to its previous behavior. It seems
more natural to concatenate __NAMESPACE__ and __CLASS__ to get a qualified
name, rather than using basename() to get just the class name.
At the very least, the documentation for namespaces (http://php.net/namespace),
Magic Constants
(http://us.php.net/manual/en/language.constants.predefined.php), and Backwards
Incompatible Changes (http://us.php.net/manual/en/migration53.incompatible.php)
should be updated to reflect this change.
Test script:
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<?php
namespace Foo;
class Bar {
public function __construct() {
echo __CLASS__ . PHP_EOL;
}
}
$bar = new Bar; // echo's Foo\Bar
?>
Expected result:
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I expect the above test script to return just the class name (i.e., Bar).
Actual result:
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The test script above returns the qualified class name (i.e., Foo\Bar).
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