How to get rid of use Statements in views?

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

instead of writing this:




use yii\bootstrap\Alert;


<?php echo Alert::widget(); ?>

or this:




<?php echo yii\bootstrap\Alert::widget(); ?>

I want to write this:




<?php echo Alert::widget(); ?>
2

As far as I know, there’s no way to achieve it.

3

ok, the only way I see is to create a function api file that provides shortcuts

thx