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php-autoloading-and-namespaces.md

Autoloading and Namespaces

composer.json

This object instructs Composer to automatically require PHP files inside src, which use the namespace WPDTRT_Plugin:

"autoload": {
  "psr-4": {
    "DoTheRightThing\WPPlugin\\": "src/"
  }
}

src/Shortcode.php

Scope

// Package namespace
DoTheRightThing\WPPlugin\Shortcode

// Global namespace
\Gamajo_Template_Loader