Joomla! Documentation™

Description

Method to get the model name

Syntax

getName()

Returns

string The name of the model

Defined in

libraries/joomla/application/component/model.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.application.component.model' );

Source Body

public function getName()
{
        $name = $this->_name;

        if (empty($name))
        {
                $r = null;
                if (!preg_match('/Model(.*)/i', get_class($this), $r)) {
                        JError::raiseError (500, "JModel::getName() : Can't get or parse class name.");
                }
                $name = strtolower($r[1]);
        }

        return $name;
}