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Using namespaces: Aliasing/Importing

Using namespaces: Aliasing/Importing

(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7)

The ability to refer to an external fully qualified name with an alias, or importing, is an important feature of namespaces. This is similar to the ability of unix-based filesystems to create symbolic links to a file or to a directory.

All versions of PHP that support namespaces support three kinds of aliasing or importing: aliasing a class name, aliasing an interface name, and aliasing a namespace name. PHP 5.6+ also allows aliasing or importing function and constant names.

In PHP, aliasing is accomplished with the use operator. Here is an example showing all 5 kinds of importing:

Example #1 importing/aliasing with the use operator

<?php
namespace foo;
use My\Full\Cla