Author Topic: Cannot redeclare class CRM_Utils_Date (Read 981 times)

Hershel · February 15, 2011, 06:41:22 am

I tried to customize CRM/Utils/Date.php using a custom PHP directory on a Drupal site and I get:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class CRM_Utils_Date in /home/mysite/www/www/sites/all/custom.code/CRM/Utils/Date.php on line 41

I think I recall this issue with earlier versions--this site is 3.3.5 anyhow.

torenware · February 17, 2011, 03:05:17 pm

Overrides won't work with some classes, because they get loaded from the regular tree too early in the bootstrapping process for CiviCRM to know about a setting pulled from the DB. CRM_Utils_Date is a pretty fundamental class, I'm guessing this is your problem here.

I'd guess the problem is in CRM/Core/DAO.php, since that file loads CRM/Utils/Date.php high up in the file in global scope. So the Date class is defined before the database is ever loaded.

demeritcowboy · February 17, 2011, 07:54:54 pm

Write a class that extends Date.
Then in the buildform hook replace object instances of Date contained in the form instance with one of your object instances.

Haven't fully thought it through but I'm running on lack of sleep and that's the best I can offer at the moment. Pseudo-code:

Code: [Select]

foreach date instance in the form {
  $mydate = new MyDate(existing date instance);
  $form->existing_date_instance = $mydate;
}

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