How to get the path of a derived class from an inherited method?
Using ReflectionClass::getFileName with this will get you the dirname the class Child is defined on.
$reflector = new ReflectionClass("Child");$fn = $reflector->getFileName();return dirname($fn);You can get the class name of an object with get_class() :)
Yes. Building on Palantir's answer:
class Parent { protected function getDir() { $rc = new ReflectionClass(get_class($this)); return dirname($rc->getFileName()); } }
Don't forget, since 5.5 you can use class keyword for the class name resolution, which would be a lot faster than calling get_class($this). The accepted solution would look like this:
protected function getDir() { return dirname((new ReflectionClass(static::class))->getFileName());}