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Hi Team,

After upgrading to Joomla 3.3, I now receive the following error from PHP when attempting to run cron jobs via the CLI:

PHP Fatal error: Class 'JRegistry' not found in <site root>/libraries/joomla/factory.php.

Speaking to the good folks over on the Joomla forum, it appears that the JRegistry class no longer exists, due to changes in the Joomla framework introduced in J3.3.  It would seem that all is needed is some small changes to the way Joomla is bootstrapped in Civi.  See my forum post on the Joomla forums for the full details : http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=708&t=844417&p=3170417#p3170417

I'm not enough of a coder to be able to code a patch, but I'm happy to test on my own site if someone is happy to code one.

Cheers

This from one of the Joomla Devs:

The old class is removed, however, for backward compatibility we added class name aliases to the application bootstrap so that references to JRegistry point to the newer class name.

When writing your scripts, I would highly encourage you to add this snippet to your files:

include <root>/libraries/import.legacy.php;
include <root>/libraries/cms.php;


That will load up the full API into the system the same way the main CMS does. I'd also suggest taking a look at the other scripts in the cli/ folder to see how we launch things up.

I had a look through the Civi code, and from what I can see, all of the bootstrapping is handled by the file <root>/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Utils/System/Joomla.php

Towards the bottom of this file is a function called 'loadJoomlaBootstrap' where wyou will find this block of code:

// Get the framework.
    if (file_exists($joomlaBase . '/libraries/import.legacy.php')) {
      require $joomlaBase . '/libraries/import.legacy.php';
    }
I the added another block underneath that to include <root>/libraries/cms.php from the Joomla framework:

if (file_exists($joomlaBase . '/libraries/cms.php')) {
      require $joomlaBase . '/libraries/cms.php';
    }
This is the file that contains pointers from the old legacy classes that Civi uses, to the new classes used by J3.3.  As I said, this is a hack, and Civi really needs to be updated to use the new classes, but this works for now - in the medium term.

Hope this helps.  If anyone has a better fix, please feel free to share.  Also, can anyone submit a tracker item for this?

Cheers

Glad to hear it worked for you.  Updated the path in my post.

Cheers