Run PHP code in Joomla about joomlatools-console

[johanjanssens]

I see. If those are things you added then it's all good. As a matter of advice, you shouldn't use those variables directly, especially not in configuration.php, this file is loaded very early, you might be opening up your code for attacks instead of protecting it.

If you are interested to create a plugin for console that would be really great. We don't have a use for what you are trying to do but if you want to create the plugin we are most happy to make it available.

[stevenrombauts]

Hi @szepeviktor, thanks for the suggestion! Before I continue I'd like to point out that we only create issues for planned features or bug reports, as stated in our contributor guidelines. We're more than happy to discuss your ideas on our Gitter chat or mailing list first!

About your question, in theory it should be very easy to do this. Inside PHP's interactive shell you can load the Joomlatools Console's autoload.php file to get access to our bootstrapper class. With this you can start the Joomla application.

That said, Joomla doesn't seem to be able to start inside the interactive shell. Here's an example on our Vagrant box for a joomla site called foobar:

[06:19 PM]-[vagrant@joomlatools]-[/var/www/foobar]
$ php -a
Interactive mode enabled

php > require_once('/home/vagrant/.composer/vendor/autoload.php');
php > Joomlatools\Console\Joomla\Bootstrapper::getApplication(getcwd());
php > echo JPATH_ROOT;
/var/www/foobar
php > echo \JFactory::getApplication()->getName();
PHP Warning:  Uncaught Exception: Failed to start application in /var/www/foobar/libraries/src/Factory.php:137

If you can figure out why Joomla is unable to start in the interactive shell, it will be very easy to turn this into a single command.

Pull requests welcome!

[szepeviktor]

@stevenrombauts Thank you.
Now there are two people lost in Joomla.

[johanjanssens]

@stevenrombauts @szepeviktor This is because the application id you are using doesn't exists. You need to use a valid application id: 'site', 'administrator', 'cms', 'cli', 'deamon', 'web', 'webclient',

For a list of options see: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/blob/6de2b00858e91bd64e7c410a6ed617d455f62d64/libraries/classmap.php#L27

For an example call see: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/blob/staging/index.php#L46

You might also be able to directly instantiate the \Joomla\CMS\Application\CliApplication class: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/blob/c9e45bb6f5718993f4bc0a36a23cccd3162b16cd/libraries/src/Application/CliApplication.php

[szepeviktor]

Thank you!

echo \JFactory::getApplication('site')->getName(); works.

BTW this is my SEF route finder:

define('_JEXEC', 1);
if (empty($argv[1])) exit(1);
$_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] = 'GET';
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = '/';

if (file_exists(__DIR__ . '/defines.php'))
{
    include_once __DIR__ . '/defines.php';
}

if (!defined('_JDEFINES'))
{
    define('JPATH_BASE', __DIR__);
    require_once JPATH_BASE . '/includes/defines.php';
}

require_once JPATH_BASE . '/includes/framework.php';

// Must be the 'site' application to get routes
$app = JFactory::getApplication('site');

$url = \JRoute::_($argv[1]);
printf("URL=/%s\n", $url);

[johanjanssens]

@szepeviktor @stevenrombauts I think i see the issue. Think the problem lies in the call to getApplication() if this is hasn't been called before and it's called with no correct application name it will fail.

php > require_once('/home/vagrant/.composer/vendor/autoload.php');
php > Joomlatools\Console\Joomla\Bootstrapper::getApplication(getcwd());
php > echo \JFactory::getApplication('site')->getName();

Should work?

[szepeviktor]

Yes, it actually does.

php > require '/home/muforum/vendor/autoload.php';
php > Joomlatools\Console\Joomla\Bootstrapper::getApplication(getcwd());
PHP Notice:  Undefined index: REQUEST_METHOD in /home/muforum/public_html/server/configuration.php on line 14
PHP Notice:  Undefined index: REQUEST_URI in /home/muforum/public_html/server/configuration.php on line 55
php > echo \JFactory::getApplication('site')->getName();
site
php >

Although it would be nice to have joomla eval 'echo JRoute::_("url-query-string");'

[johanjanssens]

joomla eval would be possible, we would need to create an eval command that includes the code above. There is a whole section in the docs on how to create your own plugin: https://www.joomlatools.com/developer/tools/console/plugins/#creating-custom-plugins

Those notices are weird though, what is in your configuration.php file?

[szepeviktor]

Those notices are weird though, what is in your configuration.php file?

That is a long story, I do not known Joomla (3.4.8) internals enough to protect it from attacks. There are some functions to log non-European HTTP/POST requests and block a kind of com_contenthistory-related attack and traffic from Tor network.