No More Class Aliases

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That last post made me realize I hadn’t mentioned one of the biggest changes to Magento 2: No more class aliases.

Magento still has factory methods for instantiating objects, but instead of the shorter, more elegant, and confusing class aliases

Mage::getModel('catalog/product');

You use a full PHP class name

Mage::getModel('Mage_Core_Model_Product');

Class rewrites are still available — this just removes one level of complexity from the configuration (where you need to specify a base class name to use for an alias group).

This is probably the right choice, but I’ll miss class aliases — under the hood they may have been complicated but for day to day programming they were an elegant solution for a namespace-less PHP.

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