Merge pull request #1964 from lesaff/patch-1

Add PHP magic constants entry

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/php.html.markdown b/php.html.markdown
index 02249cd3..ce178a15 100644
--- a/php.html.markdown
+++ b/php.html.markdown
@@ -767,6 +767,37 @@ I'm a ParentClass
 But I'm ChildClass
 */
 
+/**********************
+*  Magic constants
+*  
+*/
+
+// Get current class name. Must be used inside a class declaration.
+echo "Current class name is " . __CLASS__;
+
+// Get full path directory of a file
+echo "Current directory is " . __DIR__;
+
+    // Typical usage
+    require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
+
+// Get full path of a file
+echo "Current file path is " . __FILE__;
+
+// Get current function name
+echo "Current function name is " . __FUNCTION__;
+
+// Get current line number
+echo "Current line number is " . __LINE__;
+
+// Get the name of the current method. Only returns a value when used inside a trait or object declaration.
+echo "Current method is " . __METHOD__;
+
+// Get the name of the current namespace
+echo "Current namespace is " . __NAMESPACE__;
+
+// Get the name of the current trait. Only returns a value when used inside a trait or object declaration.
+echo "Current namespace is " . __TRAIT__;
 
 /**********************
 *  Error Handling