Jimport

jimport is a function that is used to include Joomla library files.

How to use Jimport:

1. Find the path to the library file you want to include.

   • In our testing, we want to import /libraries/joomla/filesystem/path.php
   • Jimport will only import files found within the libraries folder.

2. Make the following changes to the path:

   • Remove /libraries/ from the path
   • Remove .php from the path
   • Replace slashes with periods in the path

   After following the steps above, /libraries/joomla/filesystem/path.php will be:

   joomla.filesystem.path

3. Take this new path and pass it to jimport, as in:

   jimport(‘joomla.filesystem.path‘);

If you followed along with the above example, you can see in the screenshot below how jimport works: