Includes

[KenHorse]

I have a file (global.php) that used by many different other files in a project I'm doing. This file contains many things including connecting to a MySQL database as well as loading a php_serial_class.

So at the top of php file that needs these resources, I use

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include("global.php");

In one of those other php files, I also have a function that I'm using that calls the php_serial_class:

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$read = $serial->readPort();

This throws an error:

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function readPort() on string in /var/www/controlserial.php:370
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/controlserial.php(104): checkInput('11111')
#1 {main}
thrown in /var/www/controlserial.php on line 370
root@mypi:/var/www/#

Line 104 is the call to the function and Line 370 is the actual read call to the class

I assume this error is thrown as the function doesn't know about that class? If so, can I simply also load the include within the function or is there a better way to do it?