Nick Belhomme: PHP 5.3.3 Namespaces
Usually I only point out interesting Zend Framework articles, but with ZF 2.0 requiring PHP 5.3 and using namespaces extensively, I thought this would be useful.A few days ago, Nick Belhomme has posted a good introductory article on PHP 5.3′s namespaces.
I really feel it is time that php developers are taking namespaces seriously. If you don’t I guarantee you will be out of a job within five years. Namespaces are a fundamental part of the future of PHP.
He goes through how to use namespace and provides the source code to a small project that demonstrates the concepts and then provides a detailed look at the code so that you should have a good grasp by the end of the article.
Go and read it now!
Sudheer responded on 28 Jul 2010 at 2:04 pm #
I’m all for OOP and namespaces.
But, I don’t think you’ll be out of job if you don’t use it any time soon.
PHP supports multiple programming paradigms – functional, object oriented, etc. A lot of successful PHP projects are procedural.
It will be nice if PHP core itself starts using namespaces.