How can namespaces affect class instantiation in PHP?

When using namespaces in PHP, the namespace must be correctly specified when instantiating a class to avoid conflicts with other classes of the same name in different namespaces. To instantiate a class within a namespace, you need to include the full namespace path before the class name. 

// Using namespaces to avoid conflicts when instantiating classes
namespace MyNamespace;

class MyClass {
    public function __construct() {
        echo 'Class instantiated!';
    }
}

// Instantiating MyClass within the namespace
$instance = new MyNamespace\MyClass();

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namespaces class instantiation PHP object-oriented programming scope resolution operator

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