Constant member of class called using a variable name for the class

PHP
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Hey guys,

Couldn’t think of a better title! The problem is pretty simple.

Say, I have a const ‘table_name’ in derived class Girl. And, I want to get its value in base class Person.

I’m currently returning the name of the derived class from a method call to my registry in the base class constructor.

So, the below code works fine:

$class_name = $this->registry->loader->get_class_controller_main_name();
echo $class_name::table_name;

However, I was wondering if there’s any way to not have to first store the name of the derived class in a variable?

Much thanks,

Bardi

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I don’t think so. Not that it really makes a difference anyway…