Uddeim API Access Using Cron

OK - we are also trying to formulate a question for our hosting company, hoping that they may know some reason why the http behavior is different than the cron behavior. But we have some gaps in our understanding of how the api works. Here is what we are intending to ask:

We are running a php script in a cron job and the results are different than when we run it in http mode (through a browser window). The script calls two variables %msglink% and %_site_% each of these variables are supposed to call the domain uri of the site ( www.domain.com ). The %site% variable is only supposed to call the domain part ( www.domain.com ), while the %msglink% variable is supposed to contain both the domain and additional path parameters, like www.domain.com/index.php?option=com_uddeim&task=show&Itemid=100050&messageid=48557 .

Unfortunately, when we run the script from the cron job, %msglink% fails to bring the www.domain.com part of the url; it only brings the index.php?option=com_uddeim&task=show&Itemid=100050&messageid=48557 part of the url. When run from http, it brings the complete url.

The %_site_% variable brings the domain information in both cron and http modes (the way it is supposed to do).

The script that creates these links is as follows:

%_site_% script:

[here is what we don't know]

%msglink% script:

[here is what we don't know]

Can you think of any reason or problem with the script that is creating this %msglink% url links?

Slabbi - can you provide the missing information on the scripts?

The code can be found in includes.php function uddeIMdispatchEMN():

Maybe you can try to use "No SEF for %msglink%" (in email tab).

We checked the referenced file - includes.php - and found the following:

function uddeIMdispatchEMN has three different variables:

$var_body = str_replace("%livesite%", $pathtosite, $var_body);
$var_body = str_replace("%site%", $mosConfig_sitename, $var_body);
$var_body = str_replace("%msglink%", $msglink, $var_body);

Only one of them works properly in a cron job - %site% since it gets value from config.sitename
%msglink% does not work since it could be part of the variable $pathtosite = uddeIMgetPath('live_site'); and at the same time "%livesite% - does not work since it uses JURI::root. JURI:root gets JURI:base. JURI:base uses $_SERVER array which is created by the web server or live_site. Live site variable is empty in our case based on the recommendation of the CB team ( www.joomlapolis.com/forum/153-professional-member-support/177543-livesite-variable#177543 ).

We think that's why we keep getting empty domain name when cron job runs the script.

We did not debug each step. But seems logical why domain name is empty.
please verify and suggest a solution if possible.

In Joomla 1.0 it was possible to use
$mainframe->getCfg('live_site');
in order to get the value from the configuration file.

Maybe this works:

$config =& JFactory::getConfig();
return $config->getValue('live_site');

instead of

return substr_replace(JURI::root(), '', -1, 1)

in uddeIMgetPath().

While writing this I have no access to my dev system to check the code but maybe you can try it.

You think this would work if the variable live_site is empty? Still looks like it calls live_site, so even if we get the value, it is still empty.

This value is taken from the configuration, not from the _SERVER variables, so it might work.