Problems with PHP namespaces and built-in classes, how to fix?

Question

I\'m writing a small library in PHP and i\'m having some problems with built-in classes not being read. For example:

namespace Woody;

class Test {
  public          


        

Answer 1

The below should work:

namespace Woody;

class Test {
    public function __construct() {
        $db = new \PDO(params);
    }
}

You need to prefix PDO with the backslash so PHP knows it's in the global namespace.