Re: variable scoping...

Namespaces aren't available yet, but should be with PHP 5 (?) when the Zend Engine 2.0 is ready. J Aric Caley wrote: > Is it possible to keep the variable name-space separate between, say, two > files (one included into the other) to avoid name collisions? I'm trying > to > get two scripts to work together on the same page. Each script defines > some classes that have the same names but work differently (ex., class > Template). All I need is to embed the output of one script into the other. > > Now, I could do this by just getting the output from a URL but that seems > really inefficient. Or I could run the script from the CGI version of PHP > using exec() but that also seems like it could be really slow and clunky. > > Is there some efficient way of doing this? > > It would be cool if you could just put the include() inside of a function > and have all the classes and variable names be local inside that function > but that didnt seem to work... plus the scripts explicitly access global > variable names.