PHP namespaces and inheritence

Question

I want to extend standard PDO class. So i have:

namespace Example;

class NewPDO extends PDO {}

but i get the following error :

Fatal error: Class 'Example\PDO' not found in /home/hdocs/lab/index.php on line 4

I know that's because PDO class is not within Example namespace.
how can i solve that ?

xdazz · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-22 07:47:44Z

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PDO is in global namespace, you should add \ before it.

namespace Example;

class NewPDO extends \PDO {}

answered May 22, 2012 at 7:47

xdazz

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