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examples/toXml.php (1 issue)

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<?php
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require_once(dirname(__DIR__) . '/vendor/autoload.php');
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use Horat1us\Examples\Person;
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This use statement conflicts with another class in this namespace, Person. Consider defining an alias.

Let?s assume that you have a directory layout like this:

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|-- OtherDir
|   |-- Bar.php
|   `-- Foo.php
`-- SomeDir
    `-- Foo.php

and let?s assume the following content of Bar.php:

// Bar.php
namespace OtherDir;

use SomeDir\Foo; // This now conflicts the class OtherDir\Foo

If both files OtherDir/Foo.php and SomeDir/Foo.php are loaded in the same runtime, you will see a PHP error such as the following:

PHP Fatal error:  Cannot use SomeDir\Foo as Foo because the name is already in use in OtherDir/Foo.php

However, as OtherDir/Foo.php does not necessarily have to be loaded and the error is only triggered if it is loaded before OtherDir/Bar.php, this problem might go unnoticed for a while. In order to prevent this error from surfacing, you must import the namespace with a different alias:

// Bar.php
namespace OtherDir;

use SomeDir\Foo as SomeDirFoo; // There is no conflict anymore.
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$document = new \DOMDocument;
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$element = Person::fromJson('{"name": "Alexander", "surname": "Letnikow"}')->toXml($document);
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$document->appendChild($element);
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echo $document->saveXml();