Joomla 3.x. How to deal with “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class Mobile_Detect”

This tutorial will show you how to handle the Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class Mobile_Detect in Mobile_Detect.php (), which can show up on your website right after the installation or in your Joomla administration panel.

Joomla 3.x. How to deal with “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class Mobile_Detect”

1. One of the following errors may appear on the item page or right after the installation:

   Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class Mobile_Detect in /templates/theme###/includes/mobile_detect.php

   Warning: require_once(\templates\theme####\includes\Mobile_Detect.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /templates/theme####/html/modules.php on line 5

   Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '\templates\theme####\includes\Mobile_Detect.php' (include_path='.:/opt/php54/lib/php') in /templates/theme####/html/modules.php on line 5

   

2. In order to get rid of the issue, you need to locate modules.php file of your theme in \templates\theme####\html directory via FTP or File manager and replace the code on line 5:

   ?

   1	require_once JPATH_SITE . '\templates\\'.$template.'\includes\Mobile_Detect.php';

   with:

   ?

   1	require_once JPATH_SITE . '/templates/'.$template.'/includes/Mobile_Detect.php';

   

   

3. Save the changes. There shouldn’t be any issue now.

NOTE: the code may be different in your file, but its correct structure is as listed above.

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Joomla 3.x. How to deal with “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class Mobile_Detect”