What are some best practices for managing aliases for class names in PHP, especially in larger applications?

When working with larger PHP applications, it can be helpful to use aliases for class names to make the code more readable and maintainable. One common way to manage aliases is by using the "use" keyword at the top of your PHP files to import classes with long namespaces and then refer to them by shorter aliases throughout the file.

<?php

// Importing classes with long namespaces and assigning aliases
use App\Models\User as UserModel;
use App\Repositories\UserRepository as UserRepository;

// Using the aliases throughout the file
$user = new UserModel();
$repository = new UserRepository();

// Rest of the code...