PHP How to get a method name with a class and namespace path as a string?

class, methods, namespaces, php, string

Solution

You must use the magic constant, you can read more about at Magic constants in php.net

__METHOD__

Outside of the class you must use Reflection as is explained at ReflectionClass documentation:

<?php
$class = new ReflectionClass('ReflectionClass');
$method = $class->getMethod('getMethod');
var_dump($method);
?>;

Returns:

object(ReflectionMethod)#2 (2) {
  ["name"]=>
  string(9) "getMethod"
  ["class"]=>
  string(15) "ReflectionClass"
}

Problem

I really hate to write this question because I'm kind-of "research guy" and, well, I always find what I'm searching for... But this one bugs me a lot and I can't find the answer anywhere... So, here it goes: As the title says I need to get a method name with the trailing class and namespace path as a string. I mean something like this: `"System\Language\Text::loadLanguageCache"`. As we know, you can get a class name (with full namespace path) by typing, i.e.: `Text::class` and it returns `"System\Language\Text"`, but is there a way to get this for a method? Something like: `Text::loadLanguageCache::function` to get string: `"System\Language\Text::loadLanguageCache"`? Edit: I think I should explain this further... I know about magic constant `__METHOD__` but the problem is that it works inside the called method and I need this "outside the method". Take this as example: ``` //in System\Helpers function someFunction() { return __METHOD__; } ``` That's all OK with this if I call the function I'll get (let's assume that method is in `System\Helpers` class) - `"System\Helpers::someFunction"`. But what I want is this: ``` //in System\Helpers function someFunction() { //some code... whatever } // somewhere not in System\Helpers function otherFunction() { $thatFunctionName = Helpers::someFunction::method //That imaginary thing I want $thatClassName = Helpers::class; //this returns "System\Helpers" } ``` I hope this cleared my question a bit :)

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