I am writing a module for Joomla, at this point I really need to be able to connect to the database using Jfactory. Normally one could simply use $db = JFactory::getDBO();
, but the PHP error tells me the JFactory class is not included. So now I need to know how to include this JFactory class. I've tried a couple of suggestions found on the internet, absent success, yet. This is the code (it works perfect on standalone)
<?php
// server info
$server = 'localhost';
$user = 'ss';
$pass = 'oo';
$db = 'ss';
$connection = mysql_connect($server, $user, $pass) or die ("Could not connect to server ... \n" . mysql_error ());
mysql_select_db($db) or die ("Could not connect to database ... \n" . mysql_error ());
if(isSet($_POST['username']))
{
$username = $_POST['username'];
$username = mysql_real_escape_string($username);
$sql_check = mysql_query("SELECT Username FROM users WHERE Username='$username'");
if(mysql_num_rows($sql_check))
{
echo '<font color="#cc0000"><STRONG>'.$username.'</STRONG> is already in use.</font>';
}
else
{
echo 'OK';
}
}
?>
I hope my problem is clear to you. Your help will be much appreciated.
Attempt 1
<?php
include('../../../../configuration.php');
include('../../../../libraries/joomla/factory.php');
$config =& JFactory::getConfig();
// server info
$server2 = $host;
$user2 = $user;
$pass2 = $password;
$db2 = $db;
$connection = mysqli_connect($server2, $user2, $pass2) or die ("Could not connect to server ... \n" . mysqli_error ());
mysqli_select_db($db2) or die ("Could not connect to database ... \n" . mysqli_error ());
if(isSet($_POST['username']))
{
$username = $_POST['username'];
$username = mysql_real_escape_string($username);
$sql_check = mysql_query("SELECT username FROM #__users WHERE username='$username'");
if(mysql_num_rows($sql_check))
{
echo '<font color="#cc0000"><STRONG>'.$username.'</STRONG> is already in use.</font>';
}
else
{
echo 'OK';
}
}
?>
but this is not working either.
attempt 2 (successful)
include('../../../../configuration.php');
$jc = new JConfig();
$table = 'users';
$users = $jc->dbprefix . $table;
// connect to the database
$mysqli = new mysqli($jc->host, $jc->user, $jc->password, $jc->db);
Now it is all working as I want. The only thing is now: safety. I'm not too sure about this being hacker proof. Can someone review this? thanks :)
I'm sure that you figure it out, but maybe it would be useful for someone else
To use joomla database class (even if you know that is not recommended :) ) you need, first to define three constants, like:
define( '_JEXEC', 1 );
define( 'DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR );
define( 'JPATH_BASE', $_SERVER[ 'DOCUMENT_ROOT' ] );
Then you need to include three files, like:
require_once( JPATH_BASE . DS . 'includes' . DS . 'defines.php' );
require_once( JPATH_BASE . DS . 'includes' . DS . 'framework.php' );
require_once( JPATH_BASE . DS . 'libraries' . DS . 'joomla' . DS . 'factory.php' );
$mainframe =& JFactory::getApplication('site');
EDIT
You can include only two files like:
define( 'JPATH_BASE', $_SERVER[ 'DOCUMENT_ROOT' ] ); // define JPATH_BASE on the external file
require_once( JPATH_BASE . DS . 'libraries' . DS . 'import.php' ); // framework
require_once( JPATH_BASE . DS . 'configuration.php' ); // config file
Finally use joomla class, like:
$db = JFactory::getDBO();