Question

I want to include a file to be accessible to any method/function in a PHP class. The file just contains a base-64 encoded variable. How do I do this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

For this situation, you’d better use a constant.

define('MY_BASE64_VAR', base64_encode('foo'));

It will be available everywhere and immutable.

require "constant.php";
class Bar {
    function showVariable() {echo MY_BASE64_VAR;}
}

Of course, you will still need to include the file where it is defined prior to using it in you classes.