diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index fedbc2fa..6c26835f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ NEWS ( CHANGELOG and HISTORY )                                     HTMLPurifier
 (major feature release)
 
 1.3.1, unknown release date
-(security/bugfix release)
+(security/bugfix/minor feature release)
+! Added HTMLPurifier.func.php stub for a convenient function to call the library
 
 1.3.0, released 2006-11-26
 # Invalid images are now removed, rather than replaced with a dud
diff --git a/library/HTMLPurifier.func.php b/library/HTMLPurifier.func.php
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/library/HTMLPurifier.func.php
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * Function wrapper for HTML Purifier for quick use.
+ * @note This function only includes the library when it is called. While
+ *       this is efficient for instances when you only use HTML Purifier
+ *       on a few of your pages, it murders bytecode caching. You still
+ *       need to add HTML Purifier to your path.
+ */
+
+function HTMLPurifier($html, $config = null) {
+    static $purifier = false;
+    if (!$purifier) {
+        $init = true;
+        require_once 'HTMLPurifier.php';
+        $purifier = new HTMLPurifier();
+    }
+    return $purifier->purify($html, $config);
+}
+
+?>
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diff --git a/smoketests/loadFunc.php b/smoketests/loadFunc.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d93cc0a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/smoketests/loadFunc.php
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<?php
+
+set_include_path('../library/' . PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path() );
+
+header('Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
+echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>';
+
+function printb($bool) {
+    echo '<strong>' . ($bool ? 'Pass' : 'Fail') . '</strong>';
+}
+
+function printEval($code) {
+    echo '<pre>' . htmlspecialchars($code) . '</pre>';
+    eval($code);
+}
+
+?><!DOCTYPE html 
+     PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
+     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+<head>
+    <title>HTML Purifier Function Include Smoketest</title>
+    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
+</head>
+<body>
+<h1>HTML Purifier Function Include Smoketest</h1>
+
+<p>Tests whether or not the includes are done properly and whether or
+not the library is lazy loaded.</p>
+
+<?php printEval("require_once 'HTMLPurifier.func.php';"); ?>
+
+<p>HTMLPurifier class doesn't exist: <?php printb(!class_exists('HTMLPurifier')); ?></li></p>
+
+<?php printEval("HTMLPurifier('foobar');"); ?>
+
+<p>HTMLPurifier class exists: <?php printb(class_exists('HTMLPurifier')); ?></li></p>
+
+</body>
+</html>
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