Although this is how it currently does work, this is not logical. If I specify that the scope to be "extendedBaseClass", then why is the scope "baseClass"?  If this was not a static method, calling get_class() would return "extendedBaseClass" because the object simply isn't a "baseClass", it's an "extendedBaseClass".  Static methods are no different.

This is a limitation in the way the engine works and it 
most likely won't change in the near future. See also 
previous discussions about it. 
http://zend.com/zend/week/week219.php#Heading5 

Hi

I've mailed the patch to the internals mailing list, hoping it would be taken into consideration.

two new functions have been added: get_scope() and is_static().

Example of solution to the above code after patching:

<?

class baseClass {
	static function do_get_scope() {
		return get_scope();
	}
	static function do_backtrace() {
		$backtrace = debug_backtrace();
		return $backtrace[0]['scope'];
	}
}
	
class extendedBaseClass extends baseClass {
}

echo extendedBaseClass::do_get_scope() . "<br>";
echo extendedBaseClass::do_backtrace() . "<br>";

?>

Expected result:
----------------
extendedBaseClass
extendedBaseClass

Actual result:
--------------
extendedBaseClass
extendedBaseClass

a grammatical correction: "hoping it would be" = "hoping it will be" 

:-)

/Thomas

This should be resolved as of PHP 5.3 with the introduction of late static binding. In particular get_class() would be get_called_class() or something involving "static".