Requiring a php-script with custom functions before any block-call

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So I've installed ProBlog and I'm customizing it to do some fancy tricks, displaying colors for each category etc. But I've run into an issue I don't know how to fix.

I have a php script located in the following folder:
themes/[my-theme]/php/functions.php

Every file in my theme-folder that concrete passes through, such as default.php; view.php; custom page-types - calls the file functions.php that retrieves attributes from specific site-sections and that has helpful functions that I use to style the site.

But for some reason when I edit a page that was created with pro-blog, I get an error that one of my functions wasn't found:
Call to undefined function getSomeStuff() in /[root]/packages/problog/blocks/content/templates/blog_post/view.php on line XX

(note: yes, I customized that pro-blog file)

This tells me that my script-file wasn't loaded at the time that the pro_blog-block created the html-content. The rest of the site is displaying fine and it did go through view.php in the theme root folder which references my function.php, just not before creating the pro_blog-content but after creating it...

So my question, is there a way to use my custom functions everywhere by including it before concrete uses any of the blocks to process (render) html?

thanks very much!

yoschi
 
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yoschi
I haven't really gotten any further on this, any tips?
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yoschi
anyone?...
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12345j
i'd just load in in dispatcher.php
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yoschi
Thanks for your answer.
I had tried the dispatcher before but couldn't get it to work properly, but now I know why.
I had put my include after this line:
require(dirname(__FILE__) . '/startup/tools.php');


now I added my functions before the tools call and it's working. Better yet, there is a call to a file called "site_theme_paths.php"
## Specific site routes for various content items (if they exist) ##
if (file_exists(DIR_CONFIG_SITE . '/site_theme_paths.php')) {
   @include(DIR_CONFIG_SITE . '/site_theme_paths.php');
}

which points to that file inside the root /config foder. I just added my include call into that file:
include(DIR_BASE . '/themes/[my-theme]/php/functions.php');

Now, even if I update concrete5 it still works since I didn't have to touch dispatcher.php! :D

of course, site_theme_paths.php was meant to be used to override system layouts, but in this case it suits my purpose ^^