Hi,
So definetly I need to prepend the \ or declare the "usage" of the
class at the beginning in order to use classes declared in the global
scope? This means SPL classes and 3rd-party classes.
Is there a way to import all the SPL classes at once? ;) (use SPL\*,
use PDO\*).. just wondering.
Thanks
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Stan Vassilev | FM
<sv_for...@fmethod.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Try this:
>
> use PDO;
>
> Regards,
> Stan Vassilev
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hello,
>
> I've been writing in the last days a web application on PHP 5.3 (beta1
> although RC was released) cause of all the goodies it brings,
> specially the namespaces, however I've been a bit stuck and
> *surprised* that the only way to use a PHP class (like Iterators, PDO,
> etc) is to call them from the global scope, this means: adding the \
> at the beginning at the class.
>
> My short question is: is it the only possible way? That means that I
> need to be very careful when invoking PHP classes, like PDO? Currently
> when I do:
>
> $pdo = new PDO(..);
>
> throws an error if I use it from one of "my" namespaced-classes, the error
> is:
>
> Fatal error: Class 'MyNameSpace\PDO' not found in /foo/bar/foome.php
>
> throws an error, since spl_autoload can't find the 'MyNameSpace\PDO'
> class. And yes I know I could create a class that extends from it, but
> I don't think that's the best idea, just imagine the number of classes
> I just need to create to cover the PHP classes I plan to use.
>
> So, are there other workarounds for this? Like an autoload function
> for PHP objects created inside a non-global scope (MyNameSpace)? I was
> reading a thread about namespaces of last year and someone suggested
> something like:
>
> if (($p = strrpos($class, '\\')) !== false) {
> $name = substr($class, $p+1);
> if (class_exists("\\$name")) {
> spl_autoload("\\$name");
> // or use "\\$name";
> return;
> }
> }
>
> However that wont work cause: 1) one can't use "use" at the middle of
> a PHP files, it needs to be used at the beginning afaik, 2)
> spl_autoload will definetly find the class I'm passing (supposing PDO)
> but it's useless since what is "expected" by PHP is a MyNameSpace\PDO
> class. Probably I could use Reflection but I'm not sure if that's the
> best idea...
>
> Any other plans to use PHP objects (SPL, PDO, etc) inside non-global
> namespaces? Maybe a "PHP" namespace that spl_autoload could catch,
> like:
>
> use PHP;
> use PHP\SPL;
> use PHP\ArrayObject;
> (this idea was given in a previous thread :-))
>
> .. or perhaps having something like spl_namespace_alias, when someone
> can use inside their autoload functions:
>
> spl_namespace_alias('/PDO', $classname); // where $classname is the
> parameter received by the __autoload functions.
>
> I don't have any problems to prepend the "\" but I think PHP should
> catch that stuff automatically as it does with constants and
> functions, no? Find a bit annoying to write the "\" to PHP classes I
> want to use imho.
>
> Thanks!
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