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• Importing and aliasing PHP functions October 18, 2016

  As a follow on to my short post about namespaces and functions from a year ago I thought it would be worth covering importing a specific function and aliasing functions via namespace operators too. This has been possible since PHP 5.6, but there is a nice addition in PHP 7 I’ll cover towards the end. In the previous article I demonstrated how you can namespace functions and use them, but as a refresher; you can enclose functions within a namespace just like a class. Read more ⇒

• Namespace PHP functions August 10, 2015

  With the release of PHP 5.3 namespaces became a reality in PHP and they’ve made so much possible including better autoloading. The majority of the time you’ll be used to seeing them at the top of each class file. They can also be used to namespace functions however. A standard PHP namespace declaration would look similar to the following at the top of a class file. namespace Treffynnon\Html; class Tag { // . Read more ⇒