Question

This question may seem a bit stupid, but i’m new to Joomla!

And i am editing a current component which i want at some point to call a small php
file that outputs data.
Now in that file i want to use joomla classes and functions for the database
like setQuery and etc.

and i want it to read the joomla prefix ( #__ ).
and the file is created by me, so i wondered what i need to include and how.

Can anyone tell me how to do that?

Thanks in advance,
Eric

Answer 1

Well alghimo answer lead me into writing this :

    define( '_JEXEC', 1 );
define('JPATH_BASE', dirname(__FILE__));
define( 'DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR );
require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'defines.php' );
require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'framework.php' );

/* Create the Application */
$mainframe =& JFactory::getApplication('site');

But as mentoined. not recommended on doing that.