Is there a way to set the scope of require_once() explicitly to global?

Question

I\'m looking for a way to set the scope of require_once() to the global scope, when require_once() is used inside a function. Something like the follow

Answer 1

I haven't tried it (since using global vars is a bad idea tbh) but this could potentially work:

require_once '...';
$GLOBALS = array_merge($GLOBALS, get_defined_vars());

Alternatively you can just do it manually:

foreach (get_defined_vars() as $k => $v) {
    $GLOBALS[$k] = $v;
}