PHP use class in global namespace

Question

I have a DB wrapper class that uses PDO and in the constructor I create a PDO object. The wrapper class is in our namespace and we are using an autoloader. The issue is that the

Answer 1

Solved it. I didn't realize that aliasing a namespace only applies to the current file, and not any future included files. Found this on PHP.net which also applies to aliasing:

Importing rules are per file basis, meaning included files will NOT inherit the parent file's importing rules.