Where to place custom helpers/utilities?

[cryostar]

I created a "/utils/helpers.php" file to store all reusable functions and "include()" it on "ready.php" which works fine and all, but I cannot access the ProcessWire API variables. What's the best practices for these kinds of functions? ?

[Jonathan Lahijani]

I think namespacing your file with the ProcessWire namespace should fix your issue.

[cryostar]

On 6/22/2021 at 2:40 AM, Jonathan Lahijani said:

 

I think namespacing your file with the ProcessWire namespace should fix your issue.

 

I did what you said but seems like it didn’t work. Do I have to put it in a class for it to work? Currently it’s all a list of functions so I’m not sure if namespacing works on these kinds.

[Macrura]

depends on what you are doing – if you mean that you can't access the api vars inside a function, that's one issue; usually i put all of the helper functions inside /site/templates/helpers/ and then include them in the template folder _init.php file and that definitely works. If you need to use those in the admin then that's also a different thing, but in short you should be able to do some quick tests like write a simple function in the ready.php file and see how it works.. then move it to your include file and see if it still works...