How to extend Joomla! to my custom PHP file

Question

I have a php file i created. I want to extend all the Joomla! classes to that file. Or i at least want to be able to use Joomla's class for accessing the database within my PHP file. How can I extend the functionality that way? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

put these lines on top of your php file

define( '_JEXEC', 1 );
define('JPATH_BASE', dirname(__FILE__).'/../../../../' );   // should point to joomla root
define( 'DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR );
require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'defines.php' );
require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'framework.php' );
$mainframe =& JFactory::getApplication('site');
$mainframe->initialise();

now you can use all joomla classes here