POC allowing developers to scope and rename imports according to context.
require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
use function NxtLvLSoftware\Import\from;
// imports
[$named_func] = from('./functions');
[$print_person, $person] = from('./classes');
// call aliased function
$named_func();
// instantiate aliased class and call function from same import
$print_person(new $person('Jimmy', 19));Eliminates the need for composer and other autoloaders in favour of a JS style import/export. If all code conforms and exports adhere to good practices then it gives control back to the application developer in terms of scoping code and naming required imports according to the current context.
All php files should define a unique namespace to avoid collisions when importing, which allows the import site to alias functions and classes to local variables using the Symmetric array destructuring or list() syntax.
See classes.php for declaring classes, functions.php for function definitions and import.php for importing and using classes/functions.
Usually this approach only works nicely with simple single script applications, owing to fundamental differences between PHP and JS. Without guarding all class and method declarations inside existing definition checks you'll run into duplicate definition exceptions quite easily.
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