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Okay, lets talk about name spacing. Name spacing is a way of using a files content in another file. Lets say you have a model named “dogs” in the project path of App/dogs. Go inside the file you want to use the model in, and at the top of that file, simply type "use App/dogs". Whenever you are inside a file and you see “use” followed by a path, that means this namespace is “using” those other namespaces content. The “namespace” of a file is its path to “use” in another file .?!
When you “use” a files namespace, you can call that files content. Such as a class name, object, etc
Seth
Namespace is another way of using raw "includes" except now we have a named way of using it.
Use App/Dogs;
Would name all "new Dogs" as a PHP file names Dogs under App.
Use App/Cats as Dogs;
Now we call a cats class under the app directory except all "new Dogs" now use the cats class PHP file.
As you can see, it allows easier switching of files.
@CrushCandy Awesome, yea I just finally got a hold on namespacing, typing thing and what the :: and -> where in Laravel. I forgot that you can access your query builder directly in the code. So when I saw the :: and -> I was getting super confused.
Seth
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