Including a custom class in Concrete5 theme

Question

I'm learning Concrete5 and ran into something that has stumped me, but seems like it should be simple to fix.

My class (which resides at \application\src\Derp\Derp.php):

namespace Application\Src\Derp;    
use Concrete\Core\Database\Connection\Connection;

class Derp
{   
    return 'Hello';
}

I'm calling it from a page in my theme, like so:

use Application\Src\Derp;
$derp = new Derp();
var_dump($derp);

I keep getting 'An Unexpected Error Occurred'. Class 'Application\Src\Derp\Derp' not found. What have I missed?

Answer 1

You should reference the path all the way to the class. So try

use Application\Src\Derp\Derp;