Joomla Plugin With Helper File

Question

Is there a conventional way of making a helper file to a Joomla Plugin? Like class names (helper or plgNameHelper) and the way of calling it?

class Helper
{
    public static function test() 
    {
    // some code
    }

    public static function anotherTest() 
    {
    // some code
    }
}

Answer 1

Yes, this is possible. Here is a small example:

myplugin.php

class Myplugin
{
    public function doSomething()
    {
        require_once __DIR__ . '/helper.php';
        $newuser = new User;

        return $newuser->getUsername();
    }
}

helper.php

class User
{
    public function getUsername()
    {
        // perform some magic
    }
}

Put both the PHP files in the same directory and simply call it using:

require_once __DIR__ . '/helper.php';

Hope this helps