extending another module
Development and Programming
so I have 2 classes I’m converting into modules. 1 is a child of the other.
however, when I converted the classes I have into an EE module, I get an error saying that the parent class cannot be found. basically it hasn’t been loaded.
Now if it were a straight PHP script, I would load the parent 1st then the child class. But in EE, is there a way to do this via the modules / third party add-ons?
thanks, Jayson
This should work:
require PATH_THIRD.'your_module_name/my_class_name.php';
$my_class = new my_class_name()ah, I was thinking wrong .. no sorry I don’t know of a good way to do that in EE. I guess you could load the class before the module definition but that would be hacky.
hi Bjorn!
thanks for the tip will try it out.
😊
edit: hehe didn’t see your second comment. ah well. anyone else? mods?
@bjorn
I’m kinda hacking my way through this project of mine. I have codeigniter site I’m moving to EE. 😊 aaargh.
What about extensions? is it really only to extend Core modules or will it work on extending third party modules? I really havnt looked into extensions that much. 😊
Extensions are not what you’d consider “extending” per se, but they call “hooks” - read up on that in the docs: http://expressionengine.com/public_beta/docs/development/index.html
So it’s not about extending any classes. It’s about “extending” EE functionality by changing how stuff works via hooks.
hmm… that’s right. I think i read that about extending. thanks for the info. 😊