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PHP: Require() and Class Hierarchies
Is this bad practice?
Is there any actual difference between including them outside vs inside?
There is no actual difference between including them outside or inside a class.
Usually, the first start-up scripts are included outside classes since no class is available yet.
Later, with respect to the OOP design, you could create a class for managing the imports of other files (possible other PHP classes or templates) which has its benefits: you define a base path for all files so you can import easily what you need, increase security by invoking scripts only through your mechanism etc.