Calling a PHP function defined in another namespace without the prefix

Question

When you define a function in a namespace,

namespace foo {
    function bar() { echo \"foo!\\n\"; }
    class MyClass { }
}

you must specif

Answer 1

PHP 5.6 will allow to import functions with the use keyword:

namespace foo\bar {
    function baz() {
        echo 'foo.bar.baz';
    }
}

namespace {
    use function foo\bar\baz;
    baz();
}

See the RFC for more information: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/use_function