Getting the name of the current function in php

Question

Is there a function that can return the name of the current function executed by the program?

Answer 1

Yes, you can get the function name with magic constant __FUNCTION__

 class foo { function print_func() { echo __FUNCTION__; } function print_method() { echo __METHOD__; } } $obj = new foo(); $obj->print_func(); // Returns: print_func $obj->print_method(); // Returns: foo::print_method 

Answer 2

Maybe via debug_backtrace http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.debug-backtrace.php