why do you have to do the \Exception thing? is that just part of the syntax when in a namespace? i'm unfamiliar.

Yes - it's part of the namespace syntax. The scope of the whole file is set by the namespace call at the beginning of the file. Since Exception is not defined in the WebDriver namespace, _throw Exception(...)_ fails. Instead they need to be fully qualified _throw \Exception(...)_.

See http://us3.php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.rules.php for more information.

hey man. this is tough because we don't use namespaces anywhere in our php code at facebook. are a lot of open sourcers going to be reticent to adopt this if it's not in it's own namespace?

If you decide against namespacing, could you at least switch to WebDriver_ as the prefix for class names, so it follows the PEAR/ZF naming convention?

so WebDriverElement would become WebDriver_Element, etc?

Right. Something like https://github.com/CodingNinja/php-webdriver/commit/d16018d75ff691ede344cba53a4a5c348d9bcb9b

so another naming convention at FB is we don't put _'s in our class names. heh. i'm not sure how to best resolve this. trying my best to not fork our internal fb version from this open source one.

You could maintain it as a branch, I suppose.

yeah i could have a PEAR branch or what not. good idea.

still haven't actually seen any docs about this supposed PEAR/ZF naming convention? is that officially defined somewhere? gonna close this for now. please reopen if you have that doc and i can try to set up a branch with those changes so that we match what PEAR wants.

Here is a link to the Zend coding style where the naming convention for classes is outlined:

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/coding-standard.naming-conventions.html