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Good morning, guys.

I am hooking into the Joomla event
function onAfterInitialise()
From here I wanted to use the Civicrm api,

however, when I tried to require the api class with
require_once 'api/api.php';I got file not found. I am not sure, how the paths are working as the same line does work from a different hook.
Anyway, no problem, I can use the absolute path I thought to the api file

$joomlaRootWithEndSlash .'administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/api/api.php'

This does include the file, but now the actual api.php file is trying to load other files, and these are now failing.

error
Warning: require_once(api/v3/utils.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/XXXXX/XXXXX/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/api/api.php on line 23

Am I not able to use the civicrm api from joomla event hooks?

I have just tested with a civi hook and the code works fine.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function civicrm_initialize()



Doesn't seem to work

As detailed in the other thread mentioned above, the following works, if you are trying to call the api from a  plugin. Am not sure if the singleton code is needed, but I am not touching anything as it works, so that is good enough for me.

//get patht to joomla root
$joomlaRootWithEndSlash = substr(__FILE__, 0,strpos(__FILE__, 'plugins'));
//build absolute path to civi settings file
$fpApiCivicrm = $joomlaRootWithEndSlash .'administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm.settings.php';
//add file
require_once $fpApiCivicrm;
require_once 'CRM/Core/Config.php';
$config = CRM_Core_Config::singleton( );