Question

I have a function in php:

function importSomething(){
    include_once('something.php');
}

How do i make it sot that the include_once has a global effect? That everything imported will be included in the global scope?

Answer 1

You can return all the variables in the file like so…

function importSomething(){
   return include_once 'something.php';
}

So long as something.php looks like…

<?php

return array(
    'abc',
    'def'
);

Which you could assign to a global variable…

$global = importSomething();

echo $global[0];

If you wanted to get really crazy, you could extract() all those array members into the scope (global in your case).