[Typo3-dev] merging extensions?

[Kasper Skårhøj]

>  That's a general problem, I don't address your specific problem here,
>  but I would like to have some more "entry points" (don't know if that's
>  the right name) in e.g. t3lib classes to extend certain functionality.

The name is "hooks". 

around now is a good time to suggest such entry points to me.

The only requirement for getting a hook is that you can convince me that
it is the right place and useful and secondly that you promise to test
it.


> 
>  Background:
> 
>  I wrote a "calendar_type" extension that allows for easy selection of
>  dates in the backend (as a replacement for the standard date/time input
>  field, a really handy little helper).
> 
>  For this to work I had to extend the following methods:
>  
>  t3lib_BEfunc
>      getProcessedValue
>      getProcessedValueExtra
>  t3lib_TCEforms
>     getSingleField
>  t3lib_TCEmain
>     checkValue


Why don't you implement it wizard-style? Then you could avoid these
changes most likely.

See eg. "wizard_colorpicker"