Undeclare a class in PHP

Question

I have a daemon processing quite a bit of MVC logic in the background that includes the classes it needs on demand. Sometimes, however, it comes to a point where it includes two identically named classes from different modules within one cycle. Ideally, I would like to "undeclare" a class before I include it again, I cannot find in the PHP manual however, if this is possible.

Something like this:

//first foo 
class foo(){ 

} 

//undeclare foo 
undeclare foo; 

//create new foo 
class foo(){ 

}

Answer 1

It is not possible to "undeclare" a class.

You should probably look into PHP's namespacing or, use a convention for naming your classes similar to

Application_Module_Class

so you would be calling

$x = new Application_Foo_Bar;

to include the Bar class from the Foo module

This also lends itself quite well to using autoload functions