<?php class Settings { private $folks; private $tags; private $settings; public function __construct() { //gets all settings files and converts to php objects $this->folks = json_decode(file_get_contents("config/folks.json"), true); $this->tags = json_decode(file_get_contents("config/tags.json"), true); $this->settings = json_decode( file_get_contents("config/settings.json"), true ); } }