Fipamo/brain/data/Settings.inc.php

<?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
    );
  }

  public function getFolks()
  {
    return $this->folks;
  }
}