PHP 5.3 Late Static Binding - is there a shorter way?

Question

Is there a better/shorter way to write the whoAmI method in the following code? It seems a bit unnecessary to create a new object just to get the static class' name.

<?php

abstract class baseClass {
    static function whoAmI() {
        echo get_class(new static); // Making a new class just to get its name???
    }
}

Answer 1

Try get_called_class().

http://php.net/manual/en/function.get-called-class.php