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Hey guys.  This forum is really great, so helpful and friendly.  SOOOOO much better than the Joomla forums, which never produces anything helpful, ever.  They are truly terrible.

Anyhow, I just finished installing CiviCRM 4.1.beta3 because I was having so many problems trying to get the cron to launch.  As suggested by you guys, I upgraded to a pack with the consolidated cron.  I am VERY nearly fixed I believe, but I am getting a pesky error when I run the cron.

Fatal error: Class 'JPluginHelper' not found in /home/opoa/public_html/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Utils/Hook/Joomla.php on line 49

I get this when I try to navigate to http://www.opoa.info/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/cron.php?name=[joomla-user-name]&pass=[joomla-password]&key=[key]

Is there any insight to be given?  In the Joomla forums they list to modify the

if ( defined( '_JEXEC' ) ) {

script to have an 'or die' error handling, but it just dies and the cron doesn't get launched.

I think I'm getting close, please help me push past the last hump.

Thank you,
Teak

BTW How do you assign Karma points?  You guys are so helpful.

i'd upgrade to the latest versions of joomla 1.7 and civi v4.1.0 and see if that helps

a couple of other joomla folk on the forums have had success running the cron tasks

lobo

Just a "me too" on this. I've checke with my host (Hershel) and the Cron job appears properly set up, but is giving the same response as above. Running the cron manually (from inside the administrator area using that link) appears to work fine, so it is a function of calling it at a cron job (in the way that I do).

I'm on J1.7.5 and C4.1.0 and these are both versions that have been upgraded to that rather than installed fresh, in case that is relevant.

Incidentally, looking at the code for the CRM\Utils\Hooks\Joomla.php it has this comment:

// ensure that we are running in a joomla context
       // we've not yet figured out how to bootstrap joomla, so we should
       // not execute hooks if joomla is not loaded
       if ( defined( '_JEXEC' ) ) {

Is that still the case because this page: http://developer.joomla.org/manual/ch01s02.html
sounds as if bootstrapping Joomla is as simple as including a file? Certainly including that file makes the error message go away (but the cron still doesn't seem to have run, so it wasn't a fix and I have no time tonight to look further).