Standalone Joomla! application - JRoute problem

[evilmint]

Hello, I'm creating a standalone script beside 'index.php' which purpose is to connect to the database, prepare some data, and which is the most important part - use JRoute.

The biggest problem, however, is that when using JRoute, a bug comes out.

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Error displaying the error page: Application Instantiation Error: Application Instantiation Error

The code I used for initalizing the Joomla framework is as follows:

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define('_JEXEC', 1); 
		define('JPATH_BASE', realpath(dirname(__FILE__).'/')); // print this out or observe errors to see which directory you should be in (this is two subfolders in) 
		define('DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR); 


		require_once (JPATH_BASE.DS.'includes'.DS.'defines.php'); 
		require_once (JPATH_BASE.DS.'includes'.DS.'framework.php'); 
		require_once (JPATH_BASE.DS.'configuration.php'); 
		require_once (JPATH_BASE.DS.'libraries'.DS.'joomla'.DS.'database'.DS.'database.php'); 
		require_once (JPATH_BASE.DS.'libraries'.DS.'import.php'); 
		
		global $config;
		
		$config = new JConfig(); 
		
		$db_driver      = $config->dbtype;   // Database driver name 
		$db_host        = $config->host;     // Database host name 
		$db_user        = $config->user;     // User for database authentication 
		$db_pass        = $config->password; // Password for database authentication 
		$db_name        = $config->db;       // Database name 
		$db_prefix      = $config->dbprefix; // Database prefix (may be empty)

Code used to call JRoute:

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JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id='.$item->id);

What am I missing?

[jcms]

try this to embed joomla
<?php
define( '_JEXEC', 1 );

define('JPATH_BASE', dirname(__FILE__) );

define( 'DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR );

require( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'defines.php' );
require( JPATH_LIBRARIES .DS.'joomla'.DS.'import.php');

jimport( 'joomla.environment.uri' );
jimport( 'joomla.user.user');
jimport('joomla.application.module.helper');

$mainframe = JFactory::getApplication('site');

?>

[sovainfo]

Have a look at the scripts in cli, they provide a more recent version than you are using and what is suggested by @jcms.

[evilmint]

Thanks a lot @sovainfo, that was very helpful of you. Everything now works as intended