Question

I want to have a normal type of class structure like

com.acme.module.Class.php

So how can import packages like this

In other languages I could do something like

import "com.acme.module.Class"

or

import "com.acme.module.*"

Is this possible in with PHP

Answer 1

In PHP 5.3 and higher, we have Namespaces.

According to PSR-0 standard, package names are in the form of directory names. i.e. if I have a class Mauris\Acme\Controllers\Home (package name is Mauris\Acme\Controllers and class name is Home), my class file would be named Home.php and placed in the folder src/Mauris/Acme/Controllers.

Then with an autoloader (there’s a simplified PSR-0 compliant autoloader), you can directly “import” the classes into your script:

<?php
namespace Mauris\Acme\Actions;

require('autoloader.php');
$classLoader = new SplClassLoader();
$classLoader->register(); // register the autoloading callback

// the "import"
// the require() or include() statement is in the auto
use Mauris\Acme\Controllers\Home as HomeController;

$controller = new HomeController();
// if you don't use the "use" statement, you can also write:
// $controller = new \Mauris\Acme\Controllers\Home();

Read more at http://php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.importing.php