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I've done little web using namespaces. I have it in my computer and i'm about to moving it to free hosting that uses php 5.2. Syntax highlighter for php 5.2 interprets them as errors.
Are namespaces supported by php 5.2?
If not is there any way how to use them with little changes to existing code?
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Namespaces are qualifiers that solve two different problems: They allow for better organization by grouping classes that work together to perform a task. They allow the same name to be used for more than one class.
In the PHP world, namespaces are designed to solve two problems that authors of libraries and applications encounter when creating re-usable code elements such as classes or functions: Name collisions between code you create, and internal PHP classes/functions/constants or third-party classes/functions/constants.
Multiple namespaces may also be declared in the same file. There are two allowed syntaxes. This syntax is not recommended for combining namespaces into a single file. Instead it is recommended to use the alternate bracketed syntax.
In an operating system, an example of namespace is a directory. Each name in a directory uniquely identifies one file or subdirectory. As a rule, names in a namespace cannot have more than one meaning; that is, different meanings cannot share the same name in the same namespace.
Namespaces are not supported prior to 5.3. There isn't really a way to adapt for them into 5.2 unfortunately.
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