How to get name of calling function/method in PHP? [duplicate]
The simplest way is: echo debug_backtrace()[1][‘function’]; As noted in the comments below, this can be further optimized by passing arguments to: omit both the object and args indices limit the number of stack frames returned echo debug_backtrace(!DEBUG_BACKTRACE_PROVIDE_OBJECT|DEBUG_BACKTRACE_IGNORE_ARGS,2)[1][‘function’];