Hello,

we would like to report a regression introduced with iCagenda 4.0.2.

Environment:
- Joomla 5.4.2
- PHP 8.4 (Debian)
- Smart Search (Finder)
- iCagenda upgraded from 3.9.11 to 4.0.2

Important note:
There is only ONE Finder plugin available for iCagenda:
"Smart Search – iCagenda".
No alternative Finder plugin exists.

Behaviour:

With iCagenda 3.9.11:
- CLI indexing worked correctly:
  php cli/joomla.php finder:index
- iCagenda events appeared in Smart Search results.

After upgrading to iCagenda 4.0.2:
- Backend (web) indexing may appear to work
- CLI indexing fails consistently with:

  Class "iCutilities\Menus\Menus" not found

The error occurs in the Smart Search – iCagenda Finder plugin.

Technical analysis:

- The Finder plugin contains:
    use iCutilities\Menus\Menus as icagendaMenus;

- The class exists physically at:
    administrator/components/com_icagenda/src/Utilities/Menus/Menus.php

- That file defines:
    namespace iCutilities\Menus;

- However, in the CLI bootstrap context, this file is not autoloaded.
- The Finder plugin does not explicitly require the file.
- There is no separate iCutilities library/package installed anymore.

As a result:
- The Finder plugin works inconsistently (web vs. CLI)
- CLI indexing is completely broken
- Since there is only one Finder plugin, this cannot be solved by configuration

Workaround (local):

We fixed this locally by explicitly requiring the Menus.php file
before the Finder plugin runs (System plugin that loads the file early),
after which CLI indexing works again.

Suggested fix upstream:

- Explicitly require the Menus class file inside the Finder plugin, OR
- Properly ship/register iCutilities as a library and autoload it, OR
- Update the Finder plugin to reference the class via its actual location
  in com_icagenda.

This behaviour worked correctly in iCagenda 3.9.11, so we believe this is
a regression introduced in the 4.x series.

Best regards,
Michael

Thanks for your reply.

Just tried it and there is still the same error...


In Icagenda.php line 109:

Class "iCutilities\Menus\Menus" not found

thanks in advance.
michael

One info again:

The problem only happens with php CLI which we needing in this special case to trigger the index from external site. it seems that there was no problem with version 3.9.

As a workaround I have created a system plugin with the following code:

declare(strict_types=1);

defined('_JEXEC') or die;

use Joomla\CMS\Plugin\CMSPlugin;

// Load iCutilities Menus class early (CLI-safe)
$menusFile = JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR . '/components/com_icagenda/src/Utilities/Menus/Menus.php';
if (is_file($menusFile)) {
require_once $menusFile;
}

final class PlgSystemIcutilitiesbridge extends CMSPlugin
{
// no hooks required
}

We have this code both ways (CLI and backend) are working like a charme.

Version 3.9.11 was installed before updating to the latest version 4.0.2.
with 3.9.11 there was no error shown in the CLI script.

3.9..14 was not tested.

thanks.

michael

Hi!

At this time I am using the free version only.

best regards,
michael

Hi!

hmm...to be honest  i am not quite sure but don't think that I bought the PRO version? i didn't find any mails with PRO license infos...