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Learning PHP 7

You're reading from   Learning PHP 7 Build powerful real-life web applications in a simple way using PHP7 and its ecosystem.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785880544
Length 414 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Antonio L Zapata (GBP) Antonio L Zapata (GBP)
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Preface 1. Setting Up the Environment 2. Web Applications with PHP FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding PHP Basics 4. Creating Clean Code with OOP 5. Using Databases 6. Adapting to MVC 7. Testing Web Applications 8. Using Existing PHP Frameworks 9. Building REST APIs 10. Behavioral Testing Index

Namespaces


You know that you cannot have two classes with the same name, since PHP would not know which one is being referred to when creating a new object. To solve this issue, PHP allows the use of namespaces, which act as paths in a filesystem. In this way, you can have as many classes with the same name as you need, as long as they are all defined in different namespaces. It is worth noting that, even though namespaces and the file path will usually be the same, this is enforced by the developer rather than by the language; you could actually use any namespace that has nothing to do with the filesystem.

Specifying a namespace has to be the first thing that you do in a file. In order to do that, use the namespace keyword followed by the namespace. Each section of the namespace is separated by \, as if it was a different directory. If you do not specify the namespace, the class will belong to the base namespace, or root. At the beginning of both files—Book.php and Customer.php—add the following...

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