Question

Is there any way to temporary use a namespace ?
I’m using a library to create forms and it uses namespaces, the problem is that I usually want to create a form in the middle of a page, which is thus in the global namespace. Then if I want to call any function of this library I have to prefix everything with Namespace\

Isn’t there any way in PHP to do something like this :

Blabla global namespace
strlen('test'); // 4

namespace Namespace
{
    test();
}

More global PHP

And have it refer to Namespace\test ?

Answer 1

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.importing.php

<?php
namespace foo;
use My\Full\Classname as Another;

// this is the same as use My\Full\NSname as NSname
use My\Full\NSname;

// importing a global class
use ArrayObject;

$obj = new namespace\Another; // instantiates object of class foo\Another
$obj = new Another; // instantiates object of class My\Full\Classname
NSname\subns\func(); // calls function My\Full\NSname\subns\func
$a = new ArrayObject(array(1)); // instantiates object of class ArrayObject
// without the "use ArrayObject" we would instantiate an object of class foo\ArrayObject
?>

This is about the closest you can get – there’s no way to change the default namespace temporarily.