JApplicationCli JUserHelper Topic is solved

[swdev1]

OS: Linux jrlp02 5.8.1-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed, 12 Aug 2020 18:50:43 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
PHP: PHP 7.3.21 (cli) (built: Aug 12 2020 13:01:15) ( NTS )
Joomla: 3.9.20 (I think)

I am trying to copy data from a legacy system (not Joomla) and create users, groups, forum posts, articles etc. via code from the command line.
I have tried to follow some of the examples in the cli directory, but am running into the following problem.

I create a JUser object. This works.
I then try to get the user id for the Super User via JUserHelper()::getUserId('Super User');
I always get the following message on my terminal

php73 test.php
Test CLI
--------
With JUserHelper
Error: Failed to start application: Call to undefined function JUserHelper()

Here is the full code that I am using

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<?php

const _JEXEC = 1;

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

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

require_once JPATH_BASE . '/includes/framework.php';
require_once JPATH_LIBRARIES . '/import.legacy.php';
require_once JPATH_LIBRARIES . '/cms.php';
require_once JPATH_CONFIGURATION . '/configuration.php';


use Joomla\CMS\User\User;
use Joomla\CMS\User\UserHelper;

require_once (JPATH_LIBRARIES . '/src/User/UserHelper.php');

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);

$lang = JFactory::getLanguage();

$lang->load('files_joomla.sys', JPATH_SITE, null, false, false)
  || $lang->load('files_joomla.sys', JPATH_SITE, null, true);

class TestCli extends JApplicationCli
{
  public function doExecute()
  {
    // https://issues.joomla.org/tracker/joomla-cms/9660#event-146170 says to assigns $this to JFactory::$application. However this just gives another error -Call to undefined method TestCli::getTemplate()
    // JFactory::$application = $this;

//    $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] = 'world.jrlp02';
//    $app = JFactory::getApplication('administrator');

    // Import the dependencies
//    $component = JComponentHelper::getComponent('com_installer');

    $this->out('Test CLI');
    $this->out('--------');
/*
$this->out('With JUser', true);
$user = new JUser(0);
$str =  '***user object***' . PHP_EOL . var_export($user, true) . PHP_EOL . '========';
$this->out($str, true);
*/

$this->out('With JUserHelper', true);
$h = JUserHelper()::getUserId('Super User');
$str =  '***UH::User Id for super user***' . PHP_EOL . var_export($h, true) . PHP_EOL . '========';
$this->out($str, true);

/*
$this->out('With JsnHelper', true);
$ep = JsnHelper::getUser();
echo 'Easy Profile', PHP_EOL;
$str =  '***JSN::getUSer***' . PHP_EOL . var_export($ep, true) . PHP_EOL . '========';
$this->out($str, true);
*/
  }

}

// run the application.
JApplicationCli::getInstance('TestCli')->execute();

Any help, pointers in the right direction will be useful.
Note that as I progress, I will eventually install EasyProfile,, Kunena Forums and other extensions, so I will need to be able to call the relevant functions from those extensions as well.

Thanks

[swdev1]

Typical, a few minutes after I posted, I saw an error. I was using

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JUserHelper()::getUserId('Super User');

I removed the brackets (), and tried

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JUserHelper::getProfile(723);

723 is the user id for Super User according to the #__users table

I now get the following error

php73 test.php
Test CLI
--------
With JUserHelper
Error: Failed to start application: Failed to start application

[swdev1]

Oh man

I tried adding the following code to the start of the doExecute() method

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JFactory::$application = $this;

as per this forum post (https://issues.joomla.org/tracker/jooml ... ent-146170), and I started getting back some data.
So, it seems, I have solved the problem for the time being.

[pe7er]

Good to see that you've solved it yourself. Thanks for sharing your solution.

btw: since Joomla 3.8 (and PHP 7.x) you can use Name Spacing.
instead of using

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JFactory::getApplication()

you can use the more modern

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// at the top of the file
use Joomla\CMS\Factory;

// in your code:
Factory::getApplication()

[swdev1]

Thanks for the tip, Peter.
I guess it is be better to use namespaces.