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I've been reading up on how to access Joomla from external php scripts and I've noticed that there tends to be 2 flavours of code- external scripts that use require('libraries/joomla/factory.php'); and those that don't.

factory.php doesn't seem to be necessary, so for what reason(s) would you include it?

EDIT Here is an example of code that uses factory.php

define('_JEXEC', 1);
define('JPATH_BASE', realpath(dirname(__FILE__)));
require_once ( JPATH_BASE .'/includes/defines.php' );
require_once ( JPATH_BASE .'/includes/framework.php' );
require_once ( JPATH_BASE .'/libraries/joomla/factory.php' );
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It will depend on whether you use any JFactory:: calls, given that it provides useful functions like:

getApplication
getConfig
getSession
getLanguage
getDocument
getUser
getCache
getACL
getDbo
getMailer
getFeedParser
getXML
getEditor
getURI
getDate
createConfig
createSession
createDbo
createMailer
createLanguage
createDocument
getStream

I can imagine a lot of good reason to use it.

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  • I read that if you include require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'defines.php' ); and require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'framework.php' ); JFactory would be included. Is this wrong? Link forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p=1701888
    – TryHarder
    Commented Jul 7, 2014 at 5:35
  • Specifically it said "Those two includes import the framework, including JFactory, into the execution path."
    – TryHarder
    Commented Jul 7, 2014 at 5:40
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    Well defines just setups up all the JPATH_* globals and framework is effectively the whole CMS so no then you wouldn't need JFactory to be included separately.
    – Craig
    Commented Jul 7, 2014 at 21:51
  • I should have included the code when I posted. Anyway I've updated the question. Thanks.
    – TryHarder
    Commented Jul 8, 2014 at 0:37

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