LAMPlights Personal anecdotes from my experiences using the LAMP stack

Hidden features with spl_autoload() and namespaces

The namespace operator in PHP 5.3 is a backslash (\). One of the criticisms of this operator is that the code starts to look like directory paths on Windows. The added side benefit of this is that spl_autoload() knows how to autoload classes that use a namespace style that matches the directory layout.