PHP - Not Sure If You'll Get It. But It Is Very Difficult.

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I'm not entirely sure what is wrong with me, but I'm having a super difficult time understanding namespaces.   I have 2 primary classes

# Resides within class.DataTypeBase.php
namespace DTB\Base;
class DataTypeBase {

    protected $name = '';

    protected function getName() {
        return $this->name;
    }

    protected function setName($name) {
        $this->name = $name;
    }
}


# Resides within class.DataType.php
namespace DTB;
class DataType extends DataTypeBase {

    public function process_data(){
        ....
    }
}

I then have a third file that contains approximately 9 different classes that further extend DataType 

# Resides within class.DataTypes.php
namespace DataTypes;

class Silver extends DataType {
    
    public function differ($type) {
        ....
    }
}

The namespace system seems to work for class DataTypes, but with the class Silver I get an error message saying that the class DataType does not exist. From what I read online, and using the example above I figured the "extends DataType" may have to be "extends \DTB\DataType" but it results in the same error message.   I'm not entirely sure what I need to do for this to work properly

I notice plenty of CakePHP plugins don't have composer.json files in their github repositories (I'm not sure where composer downloads from if you don't specify a repository, is it github?) so I can't automatically download and update them. For composer to recognise and download the plugins, all thats needed is the composer.js file itself isn't it? Why wouldn't plugin authors just spend an extra 10 minutes and make a composer.js file? I'm guessing theres something I'm missing here, it must not be that simple. I only started using composer so I don't really know what its about yet.

Hi There!

I am quite far with this script I'm creating, but there is one thing I am not getting straight.

The script shows and hides information from a database by changing checkboxes. This can be filtered by a form.

Now my final problem: the checkboxes should start CHECKED instead of unchecked as they start now. It could be done by giving the $film or the $a attribute a start value I guess, but I don't know how.

I tried to put
$a = "checked=\"checked\"";
$film_query = "film='1'";
on several places in the beginning of the script, but it doesn't seem to affect anything. It only works if I put it right before the form, but then it checks the checkboxes every time after the form has been submitted (making it impossible to uncheck it). Not good

Could you give me a little help maybe?

Thanks a LOT!