What Are The Initial Q2A Core Files That Need To Be Loaded

Question

I want to use this script with Joomla 1.5x. as I seem to have the login in functioning as the Q2A using the joomla users correctly as far a i can tell..

but would like to integrate it to display in the joomla and not with an iframe.

I also have the integration so that it loads the core Joomla Framework so i have access to all the joomla classes.

as in the other posts somebody mentions that there are 2 main files that need to be loaded in Questons 2 Answer... but he did not list them.

so many you can give a quick list of the order or the list of core files that get load for Q2A..

I looked at the files briefly but is the some actual CLASSES that can be loaded from Q2A

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So just looking for the easiest solution to get integration..



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Answer 1

I'm not exactly sure what subset of Q2A's functionality you're looking for, but the key things to do before using any part of Q2A are:

1. Define QA_BASE_DIR to be the directory that contains all the qa-* directories like qa-include and qa-theme - see the top of qa-index.php for an example of how to do this dynamically - or you can just use a fixed URL.

2. Include the qa-base.php file whose full path will be:

QA_BASE_DIR.'qa-include/qa-base.php'

3. Call qa_base_db_connect(...) to connect to the database.

You can then use $qa_db to access the database and pull out information that you want.

But I think it will be pretty hard to plug Q2A directly into Joomla, since it's really not (yet) been designed for this purpose. I think it might be better to keep it in a subdirectory, and try and get it to look as similar as possible with a theme.