[TYPO3-v4] TYPO3 4.6 and PHP 5.3

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi all,

We now have a dependency to PHP 5.3 for TYPO3 4.6 but still, one of the 
basic features of PHP 5.3 used by FLOW3 is namespaces [1].

FLOW3 is currently reviewing a change to support vendor namespaces [2] 
thus making the "F3" namespace obsolete:

\RobertLemke\AutoMakeTemplate\Controller\FooController
\Zend\...
\TYPO3\FLOW3\Package\PackageManagerInterface
\TYPO3\TYPO3\Domain\Model\Site

Currently we have pseudo namespaces with our class naming prefix (I take 
the Extbase variant with camel case):

"Tx_" extension_key "_" directory [ "_" directory ... ] "_" class_name

Example:

extbase/Classes/MVC/Controller/ActionController.php gives

Tx_Extbase_MVC_Controller_ActionController

Without discussing here how it should be named CGL-wised, the purpose of 
adding namespace support for 4.6 is to be able to name it e.g.,

\TYPO3\Extbase\MVC\Controller\ActionController

and instantiate it with

/** @var $actionController \TYPO3\Extbase\MVC\Controller\ActionController */
$actionController = 
t3lib_div::makeInstance('\TYPO3\Extbase\MVC\Controller\ActionController');

I created a task for this 3 months ago [3] and I'd like to push it a bit 
before feature freeze. Anybody interested?

If new to namespaces, the FAQ entry on how a name is resolved when using 
a backslash at the beginning or not is worth reading [4].

Cheers
Xavier


[1] http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.rationale.php
[2] http://forge.typo3.org/issues/27490
[3] http://forge.typo3.org/issues/25337
[4] 
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.faq.php#language.namespaces.faq.full

-- 
Xavier Perseguers
Release Manager TYPO3 4.6

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