Define global function from within PHP namespace

Question

Is it possible to define a global function from within a PHP namespace (within a file that has a namespace declaration)? If so, how?

<?php namespace my_module;  # bunch of namespaced functions # ... # then I want to define a global function my_module() # that is an alias to my_module\mymodule() 

Answer 1

It's possible but aside from being bad design, you will have to enclose your code within brackets for each namespace and won't be able to use namespace my_module; Instead it will have to be namespace my_module { ... }.

Example:

namespace my_module {      function module_function()     {         // code     } }  namespace {     // global namespace.      function my_module()     {         // call your namespaced code     } }