PHP - Class 'HbaseClient' not found even though it is included

Question

Been scratching my head for a while on this one. I'm just getting started with using PHP/Thrift to communicate with HBase (I can do it fine w/Python). For some reason the code below is generating class 'HbaseClient' not found on the $client = new line:

$GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'] = 'thrift';
require_once( $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'] . '/Thrift.php' );
require_once( $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'] . '/transport/TSocket.php' );
require_once( $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'] . '/transport/TBufferedTransport.php' );
require_once( $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'] . '/protocol/TBinaryProtocol.php' );
require_once( $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'] . '/Hbase/Hbase.php' );

try
{
    $socket = new TSocket('127.0.0.1', 9090);
    $transport = new TBufferedTransport($socket, 1024, 1024);
    $protocol = new TBinaryProtocolAccelerated($transport);
    $client = new HbaseClient( $protocol );
    $transport->open();
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
    echo "Exception: %e\r\n";
}

I have literally no idea why. In the Hbase.php include file the client is defined as such:

class HbaseClient implements \Hbase\HbaseIf {

Am I missing something glaringly simple here? (Full HBase.php here: http://pastebin.com/6kd9r2Se )

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I believe this is a namespace issue. Try putting :

namespace Hbase;

in the file instantiating the object or use the fully qualified name:

$client = new Hbase\HbaseClient( $protocol );