Month: March 2011

Rokbridge is a Joomla!/phpbb bridge designed to allow the use of Joomla authentication on a phpbb install.

Upon install, running Joomla 1.5.14, The following error was encountered when I accessed rockbridge through the Joomla! admin panel:

Fatal error: Class 'JFile' not found in /home/…/administrator/components/com_rokbridge/helper.php on line 145

This was a little difficult to track down, (more reports than solutions) but the solution seems to be to add the following line immediately prior to line 145 in the referenced file;

[sourcecode language="php"]
jimport( 'joomla.filesystem.file' );
[/sourcecode]

In my case, I added a comment and a line of whitespace above and below for clarity, so I have the following code: starting at line 130 in helper.php:

[sourcecode language="php"]

function getParams($refresh = false)

{

static $instance;

 

if ($instance == null || $refresh)

{

$component="com_rokbridge";

 

$table =& JTable::getInstance('component');

$table->loadByOption( $component );

 

// work out file path

$option = preg_replace( '#\W#', ", $table->option );

$path = JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR.DS.'components'.DS.$option.DS.'config.xml';

 

// following line added to fix error at install – see http://www.rockettheme.com/forum/index.php?f=199&t=115248&rb_v=viewtopic

jimport( 'joomla.filesystem.file' );

 

if (JFile::exists( $path )) {

$instance = new JParameter( $table->params, $path );

} else {

$instance = new JParameter( $table->params );

}

}

 

return $instance;

}

[/sourcecode]

 

Reference: http://www.rockettheme.com/forum/index.php?f=199&t=115248&rb_v=viewtopic