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Check out the first response here, explains it pretty well:<br />
<a href="https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/74989/what-is-helper-in-magento" rel="ugc">https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/74989/what-is-helper-in-magento</a>
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Check out the first response here, explains it pretty well:
https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/74989/what-is-helper-in-magento [https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/74989/what-is-helper-in-magento]

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Is a good practice to instantiate a Magento help in the constructor?<br />
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<pre><code id="code-10-29048858-1">public function __construct()
    {
        $this-&gt;helper=Mage::helper('helper_name');
    }</code></pre>
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Is a good practice to instantiate a Magento help in the constructor?

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Magento helper instantiation

Magento is an open-source e-commerce platform written in PHP for e-commerce web sites. Magento employs the MySQL/MariaDB relational database management system, the PHP programming language, and elements of the Zend Framework. It applies the conventions of object-oriented programming and model–view–controller architecture. Magento also uses the entity–attribute–value model to store data.

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PHP is a widely-used server-side scripting language especially suited for web development, powering tens of millions of sites from Facebook to personal WordPress blogs. PHP is often paired with the MySQL relational database, but includes support for most other mainstream databases. By utilizing different Server APIs, PHP can work on many different web servers as a server-side scripting language.