<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >get_parent_class</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Class/Object Functions" HREF="ref.classobj.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="get_object_vars" HREF="function.get-object-vars.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="is_a" HREF="function.is-a.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.get-object-vars.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.is-a.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.get-parent-class" ></A >get_parent_class</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN12178" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 , PHP 5)</P >get_parent_class -- Retrieves the parent class name for object or class</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN12181" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >get_parent_class</B > ( mixed obj)<BR ></BR ><P > If <VAR CLASS="parameter" >obj</VAR > is an object, returns the name of the parent class of the class of which <VAR CLASS="parameter" >obj</VAR > is an instance. </P ><P > If <VAR CLASS="parameter" >obj</VAR > is a string, returns the name of the parent class of the class with that name. This functionality was added in PHP 4.0.5. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN12195" ></A ><P ><B >Exemplu 1. Using <B CLASS="function" >get_parent_class()</B ></B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br /><br /></font><font color="#007700">class </font><font color="#0000BB">dad </font><font color="#007700">{<br /> function </font><font color="#0000BB">dad</font><font color="#007700">() <br /> {<br /> </font><font color="#FF8000">// implements some logic<br /> </font><font color="#007700">}<br />}<br /><br />class </font><font color="#0000BB">child </font><font color="#007700">extends </font><font color="#0000BB">dad </font><font color="#007700">{<br /> function </font><font color="#0000BB">child</font><font color="#007700">() <br /> {<br /> echo </font><font color="#DD0000">"I'm " </font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">get_parent_class</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$this</font><font color="#007700">) , </font><font color="#DD0000">"'s son\n"</font><font color="#007700">;<br /> }<br />}<br /><br />class </font><font color="#0000BB">child2 </font><font color="#007700">extends </font><font color="#0000BB">dad </font><font color="#007700">{<br /> function </font><font color="#0000BB">child2</font><font color="#007700">() <br /> {<br /> echo </font><font color="#DD0000">"I'm " </font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">get_parent_class</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#DD0000">'child2'</font><font color="#007700">) , </font><font color="#DD0000">"'s son too\n"</font><font color="#007700">;<br /> }<br />}<br /><br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$foo </font><font color="#007700">= new </font><font color="#0000BB">child</font><font color="#007700">();<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$bar </font><font color="#007700">= new </font><font color="#0000BB">child2</font><font color="#007700">();<br /><br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > The output is: </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >I'm dad's son I'm dad's son too</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.get-class.html" ><B CLASS="function" >get_class()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.is-subclass-of.html" ><B CLASS="function" >is_subclass_of()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.get-object-vars.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Acasã</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.is-a.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >get_object_vars</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.classobj.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Sus</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >is_a</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >