First pass at converting files to use autoloading! Take care if you have an old yioop system you are upgrading, a=chris

<?php
/**
 *  SeekQuarry/Yioop --
 *  Open Source Pure PHP Search Engine, Crawler, and Indexer
 *
 *  Copyright (C) 2009 - 2012  Chris Pollett chris@pollett.org
 *
 *  LICENSE:
 *
 *  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 *  (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *  GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 *  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 *
 *  END LICENSE
 *
 * @author Chris Pollett chris@pollett.org
 * @package seek_quarry
 * @subpackage model
 * @license http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ GPL3
 * @link http://www.seekquarry.com/
 * @copyright 2009 - 2012
 * @filesource
 */

if(!defined('BASE_DIR')) {echo "BAD REQUEST"; exit();}

/** Loads base model class if necessary */
require_once BASE_DIR."/models/model.php";

/**
 * This is class is used to handle
 * db results related to Administration Activities
 *
 * @author Chris Pollett
 *
 * @package seek_quarry
 * @subpackage model
 */
class ActivityModel extends Model
{


    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    function __construct()
    {
       parent::__construct();
    }


    /**
     * Given the method name of a method to perform an activity return the
     * translated activity name
     *
     * @param string $method_name  string with the name of the activity method
     * @return string  the translated name of the activity
     */
    function getActivityNameFromMethodName($method_name)
    {
        $db = $this->db;
        $db->selectDB(DB_NAME);

        $method_name = $db->escapeString($method_name);

        $roles = array();
        $locale_tag = getLocaleTag();

        $sql = "SELECT LOCALE_ID FROM LOCALE ".
            "WHERE LOCALE_TAG = '$locale_tag' LIMIT 1";
        $result = $db->execute($sql);
        $row = $db->fetchArray($result);

        $locale_id = $row['LOCALE_ID'];

        $sql = "SELECT TL.TRANSLATION AS ACTIVITY_NAME  FROM ".
            " TRANSLATION_LOCALE TL, LOCALE L, ACTIVITY A ".
            "WHERE A.METHOD_NAME = '$method_name' ".
            "AND TL.TRANSLATION_ID = A.TRANSLATION_ID ".
            "AND L.LOCALE_ID='$locale_id' AND ".
            "L.LOCALE_ID = TL.LOCALE_ID LIMIT 1";
        $result = $db->execute($sql);
        $row = $db->fetchArray($result);


        if($row == NULL) {

            $sql = "SELECT T.IDENTIFIER_STRING AS ACTIVITY_NAME  FROM ".
                " ACTIVITY A, TRANSLATION T ".
                "WHERE A.METHOD_NAME = '$method_name' ".
                " AND T.TRANSLATION_ID = A.TRANSLATION_ID LIMIT 1";

            $result = $db->execute($sql);
            $row = $db->fetchArray($result);

        }

        $activity_name = $row['ACTIVITY_NAME'];

        return $activity_name;

    }


    /**
     * Gets a list of activity ids, method names, and translated
     * name of each available activity
     *
     * @return array activities
     */
    function getActivityList()
    {
        $db = $this->db;
        $db->selectDB(DB_NAME);

        $activities = array();
        $locale_tag = getLocaleTag();

        $sql = "SELECT LOCALE_ID FROM LOCALE ".
            "WHERE LOCALE_TAG = '$locale_tag' LIMIT 1";
        $result = $db->execute($sql);
        $row = $db->fetchArray($result);
        $locale_id = $row['LOCALE_ID'];

        $sql = "SELECT A.ACTIVITY_ID AS ACTIVITY_ID, ".
            "A.METHOD_NAME AS METHOD_NAME, ".
            " T.IDENTIFIER_STRING AS IDENTIFIER_STRING FROM ".
            " ACTIVITY A, TRANSLATION T WHERE  ".
            " T.TRANSLATION_ID = A.TRANSLATION_ID";

        $result = $db->execute($sql);
        $i = 0;
        while($activities[$i] = $db->fetchArray($result)) {
            $id = $activities[$i]['ACTIVITY_ID'];

            $sub_sql = "SELECT TRANSLATION AS ACTIVITY_NAME ".
                "FROM TRANSLATION_LOCALE ".
                " WHERE TRANSLATION_ID=$id AND LOCALE_ID=$locale_id LIMIT 1";
                // maybe do left join at some point

            $result_sub =  $db->execute($sub_sql);
            $translate = $db->fetchArray($result_sub);

            if($translate) {
                $activities[$i]['ACTIVITY_NAME'] = $translate['ACTIVITY_NAME'];
            } else {
                $activities[$i]['ACTIVITY_NAME'] =
                    $activities['IDENTIFIER_STRING'];
            }
            $i++;
        }


        unset($activities[$i]); //last one will be null

        return $activities;

    }
}
 ?>