how to access a 3rd party module from a custom extension?
Development and Programming
15 years ago
hi there. i’m creating a custom extension to perform some custom processing but I need to access a couple of functions within a 3rd party module.
how would i go about calling a modules functions from within an extension that’s not packaged within the same module?
thanks!
15 years ago
Accessing third party files are as easy as requiring them in your own add-on, instantiating the add-on’s class and calling one of the methods! You can use the PATH_THIRD constant to get the path to the expressionengine/third_party directory.
require PATH_THIRD . 'playa/mod.playa.php';
$playa = new Playa();
$playa->total_parents();
15 years ago
i thought it would be easy but it’s only easy when you know how!
thanks jamie!