Yii and \Yii in Yii2

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

I have seen and used Yii::$app->session… and \Yii::$app->session… in my code, both are working.

I don’t know where to use Yii::$app… and where to use \Yii::$app…?

Will there be any difference in performance?

2

If you define a namespace and don’t add a use Yii statement, you must use \Yii to indicate that this object is not inside your namespace.

I don’t know if this helps, but I never add this slash by default. If execution fails because a class is not found in current namespace I add a use for absent namespace o the slash to a concrete object.

3

Thanks for clarification, I used this slash randomly at many place and was wondering what its real purpose was.

4

I recommend you to read official namespace documentation:




<?php

namespace A\B\C;

class Exception extends \Exception {}


$a = new Exception('hi'); // $a is an object of class A\B\C\Exception

$b = new \Exception('hi'); // $b is an object of class Exception


$c = new ArrayObject; // fatal error, class A\B\C\ArrayObject not found

?>

http://php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.php

5

Thank you very much. As per my understanding of that documentation, if we declare

use Yii;

then we can use Yii::$app->…

and if we do not declare use Yii;

we use \Yii::$app->…

6

This is correct if you are inside a namespace. If you are not, you can use Yii without slash :wink: