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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)
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// 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:
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