I did some further research and think I can manage to load \foo\bar\class.php fine, but if I use foo\bar\ as bar and load bar\class.php, does the autoloader have access to the scope of use or does it get translated to the FQ path? On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Eddie Drapkin <oorza2k5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hey, I'm looking to start playing with 5.3.0, and thus by extension, >> namespaces. One of the things that I definitely need support for is >> autoloading, and the docs aren't exactly explicit in some (obvious to me) >> cases. >> >> I have an autoloading class that internally handles file-not-found errors >> and the like and a set of methods that get registered via >> spl_autoload_register. I'm wondering if there's any way that the >> autoloader >> - which won't exist inside a namespace - can handle classes with the same >> name in several different namespaces. Say, for example, I have three >> directories foo/, bar/, and baz/ and each of those corresponds to a >> same-named namespace, and each also has a class named ExampleClass. If I >> try to instantate a foo\ExampleClass, does the classname get set in the >> autoloader method as "ExampleClass" or "foo\ExampleClass"? If the former, >> is there any way to determine the namespace name so I don't accidentally >> autoload bar\ExampleClass or baz\ExampleClass? >> > > i seem to remember a while back, someone saying the entire namespace will > now be passed into the __autoload() function, whereas before it was just the > classname. your autoload logic should be equipped to handle different > classes w/ the same name, in different namespaces. > > -nathan >
