Including an external php function (Vanilla 3.3)

Back in the bad old days (last time I used Vanilla was 10 years ago) I could renamed theme/themename/views/default.master.tpl to theme/themename/views/default.master.php . .then just do some php'y'ing in the template file.
Nowadays it seems I can't do that.
I'm loading my php stuff in conf/bootstrap.before.php
Now I want to be able to execute it in the template.
Can anyone help?
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nevermind .. I figured it out . .pretty simple really :O