Can a PHP object instance know its name?

Question

If I have code like this:

class Person {
    $age;
    $height;
    $more_stuff_about_the_person;

    function about() {
        return /* Can I get the per         


        

Answer 1

No. Objects can have multiple names, or no names. What would happen here:

$John = new Person();
$Richie = $John;      // $John and $Richie now both refer to the same object.
print $Richie->about();

or here:

function f($person)
{
    print $person->about();
}

f(new Person());

If the objects need to know their own names, then they need to explicitly store their names as member variables (like $age and $height).