mod_articles_categories - Fatal error: Class 'ContentHelperRoute' not found in modules/mod_articles_categories/tmpl/default_items.php on line 14

[joomlabeat]

Steps to reproduce the issue

After updating a 3.4.8 site to 3.6.5 that uses mod_articles_categories I am getting a Fatal Error on the pages the module appears.
Class 'ContentHelperRoute' not found in modules/mod_articles_categories/tmpl/default_items.php on line 14

Just create a module instance to display the list of categories from one parent category and the error will occur.

Expected result

The module should display a list of categories from one parent category.

Actual result

Fatal Error

System information (as much as possible)

J 3.6.5

Additional comments

The problem is that the default_items.php is calling the ContentHelperRoute, which is not available.
The module has changed at some point from using require_once to load its helper.php and require_once to load the ContentHelperRoute Class inside the helper.php file, but now it loads the said Classes with JLoader::register();

But this way the ContentHelperRoute Class isn't available anymore in the template file.

The fix is to move the call
JLoader::register('ContentHelperRoute', JPATH_SITE . '/components/com_content/helpers/route.php');

away from the helper.php

and put it in the mod_articles_categories.php

[joomla-cms-bot]

Set to "closed" on behalf of @infograf768 by The JTracker Application at issues.joomla.org/joomla-cms/13588

[infograf768]

Closing as the patch https://issues.joomla.org/tracker/joomla-cms/13590 is already RTC

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