i am pretty new to PHP and am having a little problem.
my code is like this.

Code:
function thing()
{
       include("global_variables.php");
       echo($variable1);
}

function thing2()
{
       include("global_variables.php");
       echo($variable2);
}
this is not how i want it to be. the question is, is it possible to include the global variables file just once to make it work with all the functions?