Pacotes em PHP?

Question

É possível criar pacotes de classes relacionadas e têm os mesmos protected e private campos que são visíveis apenas para as classes de dentro do mesmo pacote?

Basicamente, o mesmo tipo de pacotes como o Java tem. É possível?

Answer 1

Right now, there is no concept of package.

However, PHP 5.3 is going to introduce namespaces. I'm not sure about how that will affect visibility between classes.

Answer 2

Nope. PHP has no package or friend-class support.

Answer 3

You might be interested to read http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2012/03/packages-the-way-forward-for-php

Short answer - http://getcomposer.org/

Answer 4

Here are two approaches I've stumbled upon pondering the same issue:

Simulating Packages in PHP

PHP Package Management and Autoloading

And it looks like there are some more import analogs in the PHP require_once() docs. Hope it helps someone going forward.