Question

Is it possible to define a global function from within a PHP namespace (within a file that has a namespace declaration)? If so, how?

<?php
namespace my_module;

# bunch of namespaced functions
# ...
# then I want to define a global function my_module()
# that is an alias to my_module\mymodule()

Answer 1

It’s possible but aside from being bad design, you will have to enclose your code within brackets for each namespace and won’t be able to use namespace my_module; Instead it will have to be namespace my_module { ... }.

Example:

namespace my_module {

    function module_function()
    {
        // code
    }
}

namespace {
    // global namespace.

    function my_module()
    {
        // call your namespaced code
    }
}