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Request #63298 Nothing resolves upwards in PHP
Submitted: 2012-10-17 22:25 UTC Modified: 2013-03-03 00:12 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:1.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:0 of 1 (0.0%)
From: nat at nath dot is Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 5.4.7 OS: Unix
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2012-10-17 22:25 UTC] nat at nath dot is 
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/language.namespaces.global
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I would love to use namespaces, but it seems kind of silly that nothing in PHP 
resolves upwards (be that variables, classes, constants or functions).



Test script:
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https://gist.github.com/3908714/c7639b02a8a4fc2c13ebfbcb35e41d17ab1b8d44

Expected result:
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whoof

Actual result:
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Fatal error: Class 'MyProject\Animal\Animal' not found in 
/Users/Nathaniel/Projects/test/animal/dog.php on line 5

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 [2012-10-26 18:51 UTC] dagguh at gmail dot com 
your Animal class is not in global namespace, but in MyProject.
You gotta import it via:
use MyProject\Animal;

This request is invalid
BTW. Namespaces should be all in lowercase.
 [2013-03-03 00:12 UTC] bjori@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2013-03-03 00:12 UTC] bjori@php.net 
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php
 
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