Including a new custom class - Class Not Found issue

Permalink April 17, 2016 at 2:43 PM

Hi everyone! I'm very new to Concrete5 and I'm building my first theme. I'm trying to include a custom class that I have placed at \Application\Src\Derp\Derp.php. Here are its contents:

namespace Application\Src\Derp;
use Concrete\Core\Database\Connection\Connection;
class Derp
{   
    return 'Hello';
}

From my theme page, I am attempting to call my class like so:

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

I'm sure it's some kind of issue with namespacing or referencing the class' location, but after an hour of trying, I'm ready to ask for help! Thank you!