diff --git a/core/Core.php b/core/Core.php
index 6dcefca71..b9dd3d95b 100755
--- a/core/Core.php
+++ b/core/Core.php
@@ -24,6 +24,20 @@
 if(defined('E_DEPRECATED')) error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_DEPRECATED);
 else error_reporting(E_ALL);
 
+/*
+ * This is for versions of PHP prior to version 5.2
+ * Creating this here will allow both web requests and cron jobs to inherit it.
+ */
+if (!function_exists('array_fill_keys')) {
+	function array_fill_keys($keys,$value) {
+		//Sometimes we get passed an empty array, and if that's the case, you'll get an error message
+		if(sizeof($keys)==0)
+			return Array();
+		else
+			return array_combine($keys,array_fill(0,count($keys),$value));
+	}
+}
+
 /**
  * Include _ss_environment.php files
  */
diff --git a/main.php b/main.php
index e6d9b9d80..a493e4551 100644
--- a/main.php
+++ b/main.php
@@ -65,19 +65,6 @@ if (function_exists('mb_http_output')) {
 	mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');
 }
 
-/*
- * This is for versions of PHP prior to version 5.2
- */
-if (!function_exists('array_fill_keys')) {
-	function array_fill_keys($keys,$value) {
-		//Sometimes we get passed an empty array, and if that's the case, you'll get an error message
-		if(sizeof($keys)==0)
-			return Array();
-		else
-			return array_combine($keys,array_fill(0,count($keys),$value));
-	}
-}
-
 Session::start();
 
 // IIS will sometimes generate this.