Override for /includes/classes folder?

[chadderuski]

Hi,

I'm making changes to my /includes/classes/order.php file.

Is it possible to use the override system for this directory? As in:

/includes/classes/<mytemplate>/order.php ?

The above does not work BTW... is there another way, or is this CORE EDIT only?

Thanks!

[afo]

Anywhere you see a /classic/ folder, you can create a folder for your custom template. Since there's no /classic/ folder in /includes/classes/, the answer is no, so you have to edit core files.

I suggest you create the override folder anyway and save your changed version to it. You'll end up with 2 copies of the same file one in /includes/classes/ and one in /includes/classes/YOUR_TEMPLATE/. This will protect your changes during an upgrade/update and allow you to compare your changes to the new version of the file and recreate them without having to think everything through again.

[chadderuski]

Thanks Afo, that's a good idea. I was recently looking at what it'd take to upgrade to 1.3.9 and boy have I even done a LOT of core customizations! Wish I had taken or come across this idea earlier. And NO, bad me didn't keep a detail change log

[DrByte]

The better approach to editing classes is to not edit them at all, but to instead use notifier/observer addons to intercept class code at specific places, thus not having to touch original core code at all. v1.3.9 made several improvements to that infrastructure, so adapting your current customizations to be done with observers will be more efficient now. Granted, you'll still need to deal with your current changes as part of your current upgrade.