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Using class_alias to maintain BC while moving/renaming classes

Link – Sep 21st 2016

I've been using PHP for quite some time now, and I had never heard of class_alias before reading this post by Fabian Schmengler.

Sometimes you want to rename a class or move it to a different namespace. But as soon as it is used anywhere outside the package, this is breaking backwards compatibility and should not be done lightheartedly.
Luckily there is a way in PHP to have both, the old class and the new class, while deprecating the old one: class_alias().

https://www.schmengler-se.de/en/2016/09/php-using-class_alias-to-maintain-bc-while-move-rename-classes/

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