Yes, I turned error reporting on and am getting the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_internal_encoding() in /.../.../mydomain.com/administrator/components/com_k2/tables/k2category.php on line 92

When I try to import J2.5.4 content using K2, I get the following error:

Fatal error: Class 'JSimpleXML' not found in /home/urotoday/public_html/dev/administrator/components/com_k2/models/items.php on line 737

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Trying to import 50K articles...

Ok thanks for the help !

Problem fixed ;)

Hello everyone, bit of a problem here I've been working on for about 40 hours. I'm trying to import our site's content over to K2 from the standard Joomla content. At first it was timing out throwing a fatal error, most likely due to the amount of articles. We fixed this up increasing the PHP timeout limit.

However now it is throwing a 500 error and after my tech support team took a deep look into everything the import script is itself is making a bad SQL call while trying to import the articles. I haven't submitted a bug tracker yet since I wanted to see if anyone had a solution to this problem. If need be I can post the error log.

Any help would be appreciated as I would like to use K2 and it would suck if we couldn't. We currently run Joomla 2.5.4 and it is a pretty fresh install

Yes it works fine. K2HelperUtilities uses another way to include the menu links overrides when you are on front-end.

So I found a workaround to get the K2 params instead of using K2 utilities.php helper I call :
$params = JComponentHelper::getParams('com_k2');

It works but I don't know if it's the "good" way ?

I tried to do that but with the function embeded to get the extrafield, I must call the helper "utilities.php" from K2 and doing that I have this error now :
Fatal error: Call to undefined method JAdministrator::getParams()

So utilities.php call this : $params = &K2HelperUtilities::getParams('com_k2');
That call this (and that's where it dies) : $params = & $app->getParams($option);

Sorry for the nightmare but I don't get it at all :unsure:

It seems that Joomla! still gives you the backend model. Unfortunatelly there is no way to use the front-end model when the backend model is already loaded, since they share the same class name. The only thing you can do is to enbody the function to your plugin.

Thanks for your help and your time.

Unfortunately I got this message now :
Fatal error: Call to undefined method K2ModelItem::getItemExtraFields()

If you know how to fix it ?

NB : I did that to create the model :
JModel::addIncludePath(JPATH_SITE.DS.'components'.DS.'com_k2'.DS.'models');
$model2 = JModel::getInstance('Item', 'K2Model');
And I call the function like this : $result->extra_fields = $model2->getItemExtraFields($result->extra_fields);

@Mushr00m

This is happening because you are including the front-end item model which has the same class name as the backend item model, which is already loaded to perform the save. Try to use JModel to access the model. Something like this may do the trick:

JModel::addIncludePath(JPATH_SITE.DS.'components'.DS.'com_k2'.DS.'models');
$model = JModel::getInstance('Item', 'K2Model');

If this don't solve the issue then just enbody the function to your plugin, there is no other way.

@Leon TuckingFypo

Can you please be more specific? The fact that this is the same kind of error ( require once failure ) does not mean that it is the same error. It would be very helpful if you post the entire error message here.

We'll have a look and get back to you guys.

I hope the K2 team will make quickly an update to fix that or give us a way to work around... HELP ;)

I just upgraded K2 via FTP I can access the backend admin ok but when it comes to the front end I am encountering an error:
Fatal error: Class 'CBuser' not found in /home/crosbya1/public_html/fightingyourcorner.com/components/com_k2/helpers/utilities.php on line 24

I cannot uninstall k2 because I have k2 articles critical to the site. Plaese need your urgent help!

I am having a fatal error as well, and the lines seems same (require once... is same )

require_once(JPATH_SITE.DS.'components'.DS.'com_mailto'.DS.'helpers'.DS.'mailto.php');
$item->emailLink = JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_mailto&tmpl=component&link='.MailToHelper::addLink($item->absoluteURL));

This is at view.html.php file..

I think something is wrong with the new version of K2 ( Probably a bug ). THEY NEED TO FIX IT!

Because i kept an older version of K2, were everything is ok, i saw that the line which starts with "require once",wasn't there. So dunno, something is wrong with the new version.

P.S This error gives me php error message when i try to see a k2 item.

I realy need to use the function getItemExtraFields in my plugin but it's a nightmare !

If I undersant the error is because the model item.php is already called on saving a K2 item... I can't see how to call the function...