Feature #25337
closed
Add PHP 5.3 namespace support
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Description
As we target PHP 5.3 for TYPO3 4.6, Core should support namespaces:
- t3lib_div::makeInstance
- various autoloaders
(issue imported from #M17964)
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Updated by Xavier Perseguers over 13 years ago
Once support has been added, we should be clear about the new naming guideline for extension classes and support it in the various places (I basically think of user_ thingy for USER/USER_INT).
Updated by Xavier Perseguers over 13 years ago
Extract from post on v4 mailing list:
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.
FLOW3 is currently reviewing a change to support vendor namespaces [#27490] 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');
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.
Updated by Robert Lemke over 13 years ago
I can't really oversee the implications for TYPO3 v4 in detail but here's my guess:
Refactoring the core to use namespaces is probably not realistic, especially not for TYPO3 4.6. But that is, as far as I understood, also not Xavier's point.
Refactoring the core to support extension code using namespace is far more realistic. But you'll certainly have to implement a dual-support giving 100% backwards compatibility. While I refactored FLOW3 to support vendor namespaces, I stumbled over a lot of parts having something to do with it which I did not expect. Although FLOW3 was using namespaces already, quite a big amount of code had to be changed. The class loader was the smallest problem.
In FLOW3 we have a lot of code somehow processing class names and / or package keys. Fluid for example uses the package key to determine template paths. The MVC framework was parsing class names to figure out where to find the controllers, which prefixes to use for GET / POST arguments and so on. So you better be prepared to discover some oddities while adding namespaces support. And I didn't even start thinking about weird things extensions do.
Anyway, if I can give advice on that at all, it is to yes, try to implement that, but better don't do it for TYPO3 4.6.
Updated by Xavier Perseguers over 13 years ago
- File 25337_draft.diff 25337_draft.diff added
Basic implementation added as draft patch...
How to test:
# file yourextension/Classes/Test/Foo.php
namespace T3\yourextension\Test;
class Foo {
public function sayHello() {
return 'Hello World!';
}
}
# in another extension class:
$foo = t3lib_div::makeInstance('\T3\yourextension\Test\Foo');
t3lib_utility_Debug::debug($foo->sayHello());
# if using same namespace in other class, relative class name is supported too:
namespace T3\yourextension\Test;
class FooBar {
...
$foo = \t3lib_div::makeInstance('Foo');
\t3lib_utility_Debug::debug($foo->sayHello());
}
and register it in your ext_autoload.php file "as usual":
return array(
...
't3\yourextension\test\foo' => $extensionPath . 'Classes/Test/Foo.php',
't3\yourextension\test\foobar' => $extensionPath . 'Classes/Test/FooBar.php',
);
Updated by Stefan Neufeind over 13 years ago
Status by Steffen Ritter on the mailinglist:
We indeed got very close on the dev days - the automatic zend conversion tool needed much less adaption then we thought - but it is not perfect yet. TYPO3 is so far away from Zend naming conventions and directory structure that it does not completely work without manual work.
Even if I think it would be doable until FF (as we currently already have a very good state) it would be such a big rebasement, I don't want to rush with that one.
As we have thought of forward and backwards compatibility layers and so on, we currently really are optimitic that it would work out quite nicely, but give it time to test it out in all thinkable variants.
Updated by Xavier Perseguers over 13 years ago
- Target version deleted (
4.6.0-beta1)
Updated by Stefano Kowalke over 12 years ago
Are there any news here? How is the status? I have a suggestion to this topic.
Updated by Ernesto Baschny over 12 years ago
Stefano, please take a loot at the typo3.teams.core list / newsgroup. In the thread "Minutes of the 6.0 release team meeting" Thomas Maroschik just gave us a status update of namespace support in TYPO3.
You might want to continue the discussion there. Thanks!
Updated by Christian Kuhn about 12 years ago
- Status changed from New to Resolved
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
- TYPO3 Version changed from 4.5 to 6.0
This is solved with #40095
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