Req #60135 [NEW]: Request for mechanism to resolve namespace from alias

From: Operating system: All PHP version: 5.3.8 Package: Reflection related Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description:Request for mechanism to resolve namespace from alias Description: ------------ I would like to request a feature for namespacing in future versions. From what I can tell, there is currently no way to resolve the full namespace from a namespace alias. Something along the lines of: namespace a\b\c as ABC; echo resolve_namespace_alias(ABC); // prints 'a\b\c' Situations where class names are passed by string (factories) and need full qualification can't currently benefit from NS aliasing in an elegant way. Thanks, Chuck Reed -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60135&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60135&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60135&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60135&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60135&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60135&r=needdocs Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60135&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60135&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60135&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60135&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60135&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60135&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60135&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60135&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60135&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60135&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60135&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60135&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60135&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60135&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60135&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=60135&r=mysqlcfg