Further understanding about namespace in php and laravel

Question

I am currently learning laravel framework and most of the time it's using namespace, and to further my understanding about namespace I read articles and php documentation about it but none of those discuss or maybe I'm missing the concept as shown below.

Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel::class

I don't understand much about ::class

What is it for?

Can anyone explain it to me?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 12 '17 at 08:50

The special ::class constant are available as of PHP 5.5.0, and allows for fully qualified class name resolution at compile, this is useful for namespaced classes:

namespace foo {
    class bar {
    }

    echo bar::class; // foo\bar
}

http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.constants.php

Further understanding about namespace in php and laravel

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