Better support for namespaces

[josh]

It would be great if there were better support for namespaces throughout a PHP project.

In Project Properties: Allow entering of a root namespace (eg: myOrg\MyProject)

In PHP templates: add support for $rootnamespace$ placeholder. It should account for adding to the project defined rootnamespace by including the name of the current folder. So for something in the /src/Models folder, $rootnamespace$ would translate to myOrg\MyProject\Models/

It would also be extremely helpful to have some 'use' statement helpers, where for example, something like

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$foo = new /myOrg/MyProject/Model/Foo;

would give an option to add a

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use /myOrg/MyProject/Model/Foo;

after any namespace declaration in the current PHP script.

Would it be possible to add support for namespaces in project item templates

[davidbcn]

Yes this is a much needed feature!

For example, when developing on AS3 (where namespaces work quite like PHP) you get:

- Warnings for declared "use" full qualified class names that are actually not being used in the code.
- When locally typing a namespace, instead of adding the complete namespace it will automatically add a "use" for that class full qualified name and use only the class name.

[josh]

Any update on this?

[Jakub Misek]

These are great suggestions! We'll introduce it in future updates for sure.

[josh]

Just a thought, it would be great if these were actually pulled from composer.json, since it already tells you most of what you need in the the `autoload` sections