Cannot redeclare function

[Superdawgie]

Apologies if this question has been asked before. I cannot find anything in the manual regarding this.

 

Is there a specific place I can include reusable custom functions, so they are defined only once and can be called from any custom hook or module?

 

We have a custom provisioning module in which we created a custom function to connect to a second database.

The function code is written in the module php file.

 

When I created a custom hook that also requires this function, I redefined the same function code into the hook php file.

 

This caused PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare function.

The error told me the file it was previously declared in, so I was able to remove the code from the second file to get rid of the error.

 

As I do not know the order in which custom files are parsed.

I would prefer if I can define all custom reusable code in one file that is parsed before anything else.

[sentq]

write common functions in separate file, then include in actionhook file or addon module etc

 

use require_once() instead of require()

and include_once() instead of include()

 

this should prevent this error

[Superdawgie]

Cool thanks.

 

Dont know why I didnt think of that.