Question K 1.6 / J! 1.6 - Admin Menu Missing

pieter wrote:

Hi, I also ran into this issue, so I took a closer look at it...

First, installing 1.6.0-ALPHA gave me this error :

Code:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class Com_KunenaInstallerScript in .../administrator/components/com_kunena/install.kunena.php on line 31

The installation control 'kunena.xml' file in the zipfile specifies the same
file for both 'install' and 'uninstall'.. :

Code:

<installfile>install.kunena.php</installfile> <uninstallfile>install.kunena.php</uninstallfile>

which causes that same file to get interpreted twice.. This 'install.kunena.php'
file contains the Com_KunenaInstallerScript class definition, so that'll also
tried to get loaded twice...

A solution for this is to wrap the Com_KunenaInstallerScript class definition
into a 'class_exists' block :

Code:

if (!class_exists('Com_KunenaInstallerScript')) { class Com_KunenaInstallerScript { .... } }

OK, we're past the installation error.. Next, the module installed, but the admin
components menu does not show an entry for Kunena..

That's because the installation control 'kunena.xml' file does not contain a
'<menu>' element in the '<administration>' section... So, adding this :

Code:

<menu view="cpanel" img="components/com_kunena/com_kunena/images/kunena-logo-48.png">Kunena</menu>

to the '<administration>' section will solve that problem.
( modify kunena.xml, then rebuild the zipfile and reinstall, or install from the directory
with the modified file... )

btw. I used J1.6beta3 for this..

Hope this helps...

Pieter.

Pieter,

Thanks a lot for taking the time to look into this. I will check it out and apply the changes so this will go into our next Alpha build.

Oliver

Ok - got a fix coded. Sent you a PM.

Thx!

I installed K1.6 alpha2 on J1.6 beta3, the admin menu is still missing - there was no error as far as i can remember, it's simply missing from the Components menu in the admin interface.

Yep, I noticed. My latest suggesions were not incorporated in ALPHA2...

I have the same problem:

jtspost have no response?
PHP Built On: Linux infong 2.4 #1 SMP Wed Nov 4 21:12:12 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
Database Version: 5.0.81-log
Database Collation: utf8_general_ci
PHP Version: 5.2.13
Web Server: Apache
WebServer to PHP Interface: cgi
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.6.0 Beta3 [ Hope ] 31-May-2010 23:00 GMT
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 GTB7.0

Relevant PHP Settings
Setting Value

Safe Mode: Off
Open basedir: None
Display Errors: On
Short Open Tags: On
File Uploads: On
Magic Quotes: On
Register Globals: Off
Output Buffering: Off
Session Save Path: /tmp
Session Auto Start: 0
XML Enabled: Yes
Zlib Enabled: Yes
Disabled Functions: None
Mbstring Enabled: Yes
Iconv Available: Yes

OK, I had Case-Berlin try my mods, and it still gave him install errors !

eventually, it turns out that the installation is somewhat sensitive to
remnants from previous and probably failed installations...

This is was got us going :

- uninstall Kunena Alpha2 ( if it shows up as installed )
- remove remnants on the filesystem
( if your'e on Windows, use explorer to remove the files, where you should note
the wildcards .. )
- remove remnants from the database
- retry the installation ( either ALPHA2 or with my mods...)

pieter.

FYI - This is a known issue with the current Joomla 1.6 beta. Multiple extension authors have reported the same problem.

the problem is with joomla 1.6. I have same problem. Try with 1.5 joomla