Can you have nested classes in PHP?

Question

I'm not talking about inheritance. And I'm not talking about nested objects. I'm talking:

System::Web::Templating(...)

kind of nesting. These are classes of which you shouldn't create instances.. so...

Dude, that's [**chaining**](http://stackoverflow.com/a/4414422/632951), not nesting. — Pacerier, Mar 13 '15 at 13:43

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 10 '09 at 15:54

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No.

However, you could do something like this by returning an instantiated object in getInstance():

myClass::getInstance()->foo();

answered Oct 10 '09 at 15:54

Mike B

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 10 '09 at 15:54

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answered Oct 10 '09 at 15:54

knittl

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 10 '09 at 16:06

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It seems that you're speaking about namespaces, not about any kind of nesting. This feature was implemented in PHP 5.3, and is documented here.

answered Oct 10 '09 at 16:06

Ignas R

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namespaces and nested classes are different things. Although in other languages the syntax of calling can be the same both for namespaces and classes – sergtk Apr 10 '11 at 08:34

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