Get The Calling Function

Knowing which PHP function call the code we are working on can give us the clues we need for de-bugging a script.
Getting the calling function is easy in PHP, thanks to the debug_backtrace() function.

Just put the following code wherever in your script you need to know what function is calling the part you are working on.



$backtrace = debug_backtrace();
print "The function that just called this code is " .$backtrace[1]['function'] . ".";


This will output something like this:

The function that just called this code is DrawWidget.

Where DrawWidget is the name of the function.

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