How to get class name?

I have a class like this

$answer = Answer::create([ ... .. ]);

I want to get the name of this class as string.

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@rid3638 Have you tried with class_basename() ?

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These return the qualified class name:

$className = Answer::class;
$className = get_class($answer);

If you just want the name of the class without the namespace part, you can either strip the namespace manually or use reflection:

$shortClassName = (new ReflectionClass($answer))->getShortName();

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