I am unable to view the category editing page in the control panel. This is a long term issue that I have reported before. Please address it as no other components have had this problem. I am using CentOS 5, php5, Apache 2.2, Joomla 1.5.2.

The issue is caused because the way the JEvents component is coded, it looks in the PHP include directory for the domain and not in the includes directory for the Joomla site. It is good/best practice to have an includes directory outside of the browseable Apache directory tree.

/path/http/http://sitename.com/html (viewable by a web browser)
/path/http/http://sitename.com/includes
/path/http/http://sitename.com/reports
/path/http/http://sitename.com/temp

Joomla install creates its own includes directory (/path/http/http://sitename.com/html/includes). Every other component I have used (a lot) have managed to find their included files in the Joomla includes directory. This component, because of how it is coded, looks in the PHP include directory and that causes the component to fail.

Please, please address this issue this time. This existed in the version of JEvents that I tried a year ago and I reported it and nothing has been done.

An extract of my Apache log is below.

[Tue Apr 01 22:03:32 2008] [error] [client 203.122.241.201] PHP Warning: CategoryController::include_once(includes/pageNavigation.php) [<a href='function.CategoryController-include-once'>function.CategoryController-include-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /path/http/http://churchsite.org.au/html/administrator/components/com_events/lib/categories/categoryController.php on line 96, referer: http://churchsite.pathweb.com/administrator/index2.php

[Tue Apr 01 22:03:32 2008] [error] [client 203.122.241.201] PHP Warning: CategoryController::include_once() [<a href='function.include'>function.include</a>]: Failed opening 'includes/pageNavigation.php' for inclusion (include_path='/path/http/http://churchsite.org.au/includes') in /path/http/http://churchsite.org.au/html/administrator/components/com_events/lib/categories/categoryController.php on line 96, referer: http://churchsite.pathweb.com/administrator/index2.php

[Tue Apr 01 22:03:32 2008] [error] [client 203.122.241.201] PHP Fatal error: Class 'JPagination' not found in /path/http/http://churchsite.org.au/html/administrator/components/com_events/lib/categories/categoryController.php on line 97, referer: http://churchsite.pathweb.com/administrator/index2.php

[Tue Apr 01 22:03:32 2008] [error] [client 203.122.241.201] File does not exist: /path/http/http://churchsite.org.au/html/favicon.ico

[Tue Apr 01 22:03:41 2008] [error] [client 203.122.241.201] File does not exist: /path/http/http://churchsite.org.au/html/favicon.ico

[Tue Apr 01 22:03:50 2008] [error] [client 203.122.241.201] File does not exist: /path/http/http://churchsite.org.au/html/templates/js_jamba/css/J15.css, referer: http://churchsite.pathweb.com/index.php ... h/2008/4/1

[Tue Apr 01 22:04:27 2008] [error] [client 203.122.241.201] PHP Warning: CategoryController::include_once(includes/pageNavigation.php) [<a href='function.CategoryController-include-once'>function.CategoryController-include-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /path/http/http://churchsite.org.au/html/administrator/components/com_events/lib/categories/categoryController.php on line 96, referer: http://churchsite.pathweb.com/administrator/index2.php

[Tue Apr 01 22:04:27 2008] [error] [client 203.122.241.201] PHP Warning: CategoryController::include_once() [<a href='function.include'>function.include</a>]: Failed opening 'includes/pageNavigation.php' for inclusion (include_path='/path/http/http://churchsite.org.au/includes') in /path/http/http://churchsite.org.au/html/administrator/components/com_events/lib/categories/categoryController.php on line 96, referer: http://churchsite.pathweb.com/administrator/index2.php

[Tue Apr 01 22:04:27 2008] [error] [client 203.122.241.201] PHP Fatal error: Class 'JPagination' not found in /path/http/http://churchsite.org.au/html/administrator/components/com_events/lib/categories/categoryController.php on line 97, referer: http://churchsite.pathweb.com/administrator/index2.php