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Understanding Autoloading, Helper Classes and Helper Functions
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but this is tedious: it's much more convenient to use regular ordinary functions to do this, and it's easy to achieve in Yii (though it does not involve the autoloader).
### 1. Create helpers function file
I usually define helpers in `protected/components/helpers.incphp`:
```php
<?php
// protected/components/helpers.
incphp
function startsWith($needle, $haystack)[...]
// protected/config/main.php
require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/../components/helpers.incphp');
...
```
This done, any part of the application can use the helper functions defined here:[...]