[Typo3-dev] extending an extension

[Christoph Koehler]

Thank you for the tips!
I have emailed the author (it's the cwt_community extension) but no  
answer. I was hoping to just work on his and extend the existing  
extension...


On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:52:58 -0500, Ries van Twisk <typo3 at rvt.dds.nl>  
wrote:

> Christoph Koehler wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have been looking around at various documents for developing  
>> extensions,  and I was wondering if any of you can point me to some  
>> that would be  helpful to extend an already existing extension, since  
>> the mailing list  archive is gone at the moment.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
> There are some techniques, one is XLASS the other one is hooks, I  
> prefere hooks.
> The rule is more like this:
>
> If the extention is private and you ar enot going to upload your  
> extention of a extention of extention extention, then you can use the  
> XLASS method.
> IF you are going to upload your extention extention to TER then it  
> HIGHLY prefered to use hooks for this.
> You need to take a look in the source or code to see if there is a hook  
> provided for 'what you want to do...', if not
> then ask the author of the extention you want to extent if he can add a  
> few hooks on sensible places for you...
>
> Yet better, cooperate with the author and intergrate your add-on to the  
> extention, TER is already poluted with un-usefull extentions...  
> ofcourse, if you are planning to share it with us...
>
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> regards,
> Ries
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