PHP: Using imported class without namespace in class with namespace

Question

I'm using a pear library that doesn't utilize namespaces and some composer based libraries which, obviously, do. I'd like to use namespaces in my own code, but I find that when I import classes from the pear library (non-namespaced) I can't reference them correctly.

<?php namespace Foo\Bar;

require_once "pearLib/Baz.php";

class MyClass extends Baz { ... }

PHP looks for the class Foo\Bar\Baz, giving me the message The Class 'Foo\Bar\DataType' not found. I simply want the non-namespaced Baz class which I just imported. Suggestions???

Answer 1

To get it off the unanswered list:

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Use a backslash before the class name like:

class MyClass extends \Baz