Laravel - Namespaces

Namespaces can be defined as a class of elements in which each element has a unique name to that associated class. It may be shared with elements in other classes.

Declaration of namespace

The use keyword allows the developers to shorten the namespace.

use <namespace-name>;

The default namespace used in Laravel is App, however a user can change the namespace to match with web application. Creating user defined namespace with artisan command is mentioned as follows −

php artisan app:name SocialNet

The namespace once created can include various functionalities which can be used in controllers and various classes.