Get class constant names in php?
- by user151841
I have a php class with some class constants that indicate the status of an instance.
When I'm using the class, after I run some methods on it, I do some checks to make sure that the status is what I expect it to be.
For instance, after calling some methods, I expect the status to be MEANINGFUL_STATUS_NAME.
$objInstance->method1();
$objInstance->method2();
if ( $objInstance->status !== class::MEANINGFUL_STATUS_NAME ) {
throw new Exception("Status is wrong, should not be " . class::MEANINGFUL_STATUS_NAME . ".");
}
However, this gives me the exception message
"Status is wrong, should not be 2"
when what I really want to see is
"Status is wrong, should not be MEANINGFUL_STATUS_NAME"
So I've lost the meaningfulness of the constant name. I was thinking of making an 'translation table' array, so I can take the constant values and translate them back into their name, but this seems cumbersome. How should I translate this back, so I get an error message that gives me a better idea of what went wrong?
