Hi,

I have plenty of websites running now. The problem I face is my instalation of Gator Feed which accesses the Components folder and also the Includes folder as part of a CRON job.

I have had to move my Gator Feed folder into the root so that the CRON task can call the script, which is fine, however the script calls another file 'includes/defines.php'

I've tried moving this file elsewhere but to no avail. I get the error message:
Warning: require_once(/includes/defines.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/vhosts/hydro2grow.co.uk/httpdocs/com_fg_cron/cron.feedgator.php on line 23

I've tried changing the location of the defines.php file but it won't work. I know this is more likely to be a question for GF but I was wondering if a similar issue had already come up somewhere/elsewhere?

The code within the GF file is:

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php

/**
* FeedGator - Aggregate RSS newsfeed content into a Joomla! database
* @version 2.3.3
* @package FeedGator
* @author Original author Stephen Simmons
* @now continued and modified by Matt Faulds, Remco Boom & Stephane Koenig and others
* @email mattfaulds@gmail.com
* @Joomla 1.5 Version by J. Kapusciarz (mrjozo)
* @copyright (C) 2005 by Stephen Simmons - All rights reserved
* @license GNU/GPL: www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
*
**/


define( '_JEXEC', 1 );

define('DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
define('JPATH_BASE', substr(__FILE__,0,strrpos(__FILE__, DS.'administrator')));

require_once(JPATH_BASE.DS.'includes'.DS.'defines.php' );
require_once(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR.DS.'includes'.DS.'framework.php' );
require_once(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR.DS.'includes'.DS.'helper.php' );
require_once(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR.DS.'includes'.DS.'toolbar.php' );

$mainframe = &JFactory::getApplication('site');
$mainframe->initialise();

$version = new JVersion();
define('J_VERSION', $version->getShortVersion());

require_once(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR.DS.'components'.DS.'com_feedgator'.DS.'controller.php');
require_once(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR.DS.'components'.DS.'com_feedgator'.DS.'factory.feedgator.php');
require_once(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR.DS.'components'.DS.'com_feedgator'.DS.'helpers'.DS.'feedgator.helper.php');
require_once(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR.DS.'components'.DS.'com_feedgator'.DS.'helpers'.DS.'feedgator.utility.php');
if(file_exists(JPATH_ROOT.DS.'plugins'.DS.'system'.DS.'addkeywords.php')) {
require_once(JPATH_ROOT.DS.'plugins'.DS.'system'.DS.'addkeywords.php');
}
FeedgatorUtility::profiling('Start cron');

define('SPIE_CACHE_AGE', 60*10);

require_once(JPATH_ROOT.DS.'libraries'.DS.'simplepie'.DS.'simplepie.php');
require_once(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR.DS.'components'.DS.'com_feedgator'.DS.'inc'.DS.'simplepie'.DS.'overrides.php');
FeedgatorUtility::profiling('Loaded SimplePie');

JRequest::setVar('task','cron','get');
JRequest::setVar(JUtility::getToken(),'1','get');

$config = array('base_path'=>JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR.DS.'components'.DS.'com_feedgator');
$controller = new FeedgatorController($config);
$controller->import('all');

FeedgatorUtility::profiling('End');
echo 'Import finished';

Regards
Jamie

The key element to make this script working is that it compute the correct JPATH_BASE.

If the define( 'JPATH_BASE' ...) has a wrong value, this may explain that you encouter problem.

If the computation of this value is wrong, perhaps you could replace the
define( 'JPATH_BASE', '<PUT HERE THE ROOT DIRECTORY OF JOOMLA>')

I hope this will help you

I changed the file to read : define('JPATH_BASE', substr(__FILE__,0,strrpos(__FILE__, DS.'/var/www/vhosts/hydro2grow.co.uk/httpdocs')));

However I get the following error (original file located here 'includes/import.php' )

Fatal error: Class 'JRequest' not found in /var/www/vhosts/hydro2grow.co.uk/httpdocs/com_fg_script/import.php on line 33

I'm not sure where to go from here....

31 //Environment classes
32 JLoader::import( 'joomla.environment.request' );
33 JRequest::clean();
34
35 JLoader::import( 'joomla.environment.response' );

The problem is not to change the file to read but assing the correct value to the define
In example:
define('JPATH_BASE', '/var/www/vhosts/hydro2grow.co.uk/httpdocs');

In the line that you writen, you can never find a value and the result is problem an empty string assign to the JPATH_BASE.
That you explain that you have an error to load the 'includes/import.php' as the JPATH_BASE would be empty.

So hardcode the value to the JPATH_BASE
This must be a constant.

I changed my base path to look like this:
define('JPATH_BASE','');

However I'm still getting the same error message from the 'import.php' file.

//Environment classes
32 JLoader::import( 'joomla.environment.request' );
33 JRequest::clean();

34 JLoader::import( 'joomla.environment.response' );

Thanks for your help so far

Great - I've got back to an error now in FG which is better:

Fatal error: Class 'JFactory' not found in /var/www/vhosts/hydro2grow.co.uk/httpdocs/com_fg_cron/cron.feedgator.php on line 28

This is the line 28:
$mainframe = &JFactory::getApplication('site');

Any ideas...?