Question

I have multiple libraries created in application/libraries for the APIs I use.

APIs:

• Vimeo
• Flickr

Now I have created in application/modules/apis/controllers/vimeo.php and application/modules/apis/controllers/flickr.php that will interact with the libraries upon request by the other modules.

The problem is that now I redeclare the classes:

• libraries/Flickr.php:

  Class Flickr { }

• modules/apis/controllers/flickr.php:

  Class Flickr extends MX_Controller { }

So I get in my apache2’s error log: Cannot redeclare class Flickr in ...

EDIT:

So having in my modules/apis/controllers/flickr.php file:

<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

Class Flickr extends MX_Controller { ... }

How should I use:

namespace controllers\blog

class user extends \CI_Controller {

explained here: http://codeigniter.com/forums/viewthread/212661/ ?

Tried doing:

<?php

//TRIED:
namespace controllers\flickr;
namespace Flickr;
namespace modules\apis\controllers\flickr;

if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

Class Flickr extends \MX_Controller { ... }

$_ns = __NAMESPACE__;

But I get no response from a simple function that echoes out ‘alex’ and no error in my log calling the controller and function.

Answer 1

PHP 5.3 added support for namespaces. CodeIgniter doesn’t support them yet though, but I did find a recent forum post that claims to have a patch that will allow you to use them.

http://codeigniter.com/forums/viewthread/212661/