admin/catelogue common areas?

I should know this by now...

Is there a way to make defines, configures, and/or functions accessible to both admin and store areas??

Specifically, I'm adding a feature to my site so that a customer can request a product (rather than order... don't ask). The customer creates the request, and the customer can also delete the request. The admin, can also delete a request. I've finished with the admin site... and when the delete is done it sends out a formatted email to the customer. I want the same thing to happen when the customer does it, without having to re-create all the defines and functions.

The functions aren't a big deal really... its more the defines. Because if the admin wants to change a typo (for example) it has to be done in two places.

I was wondering if there was already a way to do this?

• Steven

Is there any problem with putting something like this at the top of my admin page that wants to use a function (or datafile, or whatever) from the shop?

require('../includes/functions/extra_functions/functions_somePage.php');

It'd be nice to hear from a developer that can tell me if that introduces some security problem, etc.

Thanks.

• Steven

Yes, you can have the admin call catalog files. In fact, the admin does this already for many of the classes and functions, and v1.4 will consolidate things even more.
You could use the autoloader and init system to have it auto-load some components if you needed to. Or doing a direct require from within your module is fine too.

Cool...thanks! I just wanted to make sure I wasn't somehow opening a can of worms.

• Steven