In PHP you can have non-alphanumeric variables like so: $org->{'spring framework'}->orm->jdo->{'transaction aware persistence manager factory proxy'} I'm

In PHP you can have non-alphanumeric variables like so: $org->{'spring framework'}->orm->jdo->{'transaction aware persistence manager factory proxy'} I'm not sure if you can do that with PHP namespaces though (and I'm too lazy to test this): use org\{'spring framework'}\orm\jdo\{'transaction aware persistence manager factory proxy'};