Title: Functions.php challenge – including external function library
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Functions.php challenge – including external function library

 *  [EivindFS](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eivindfs/)
 * (@eivindfs)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionsphp-challenge-including-external-function-library/)
 * Hey guys,
 * I’m struggling with this one. After running individual functions file for all
   of our sites at my company for several years, I want to streamline the way we
   work with functions. I intend to develop a function library that we implement
   on all of our sites and I want to store it in one place only.
 * I add an include/require statement in my functions.php file pointing to the external
   functions library on our company server. The library is read fine and basic echo
   statements outside of functions get interpreted. The functions themselves aren’t
   picked up however. I run function_exists and it fails on all the included functions.
 * (I run this test AFTER including the library)
 * I don’t understand why this wouldn’t work.
 * Can someone point me in the right direction, please? Thanks 🙂
 * Eivind

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