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Related to current discussion (other thread) about IPN callbacks, in the meantime I want to fire up CiviCRM and start using some methods implemented in extension classes.

I noticed that the Ogone processor IPN references CRM_Core_Payment_OgoneIPN::main without even having to include the class file. "Great!", I thought, "CiviCRM must automatically load the core file from each extension. Easy!". Nope.

So I did this instead:

session_start( );
require_once '../civicrm.config.php';
require_once 'CRM/Core/Config.php';
$config = CRM_Core_Config::singleton();

// Probably there's a cleaner way to require an extension's base file?
require_once 'CRM/Core/Extensions/Extension.php';
$ext = new CRM_Core_Extensions_Extension( 'nz.co.giantrobot.flo2cashdonate' );
if ( !empty( $ext->path ) ) {
    require_once $ext->path . '/Flo2CashDonate.php';
}
https://github.com/GiantRobot/civicrm_flo2cash_donate/blob/master/nz.co.giantrobot.flo2cashdonate/f2c_ipn.php#L9

Is there an easier, cleaner way to achieve this? If there was then f2c_ipn.php would more like ten lines than thirty.

This is something I wanted to ask about - how to include extension classes/code in a new custom report (or any custom code).  I hope this will be added to Extension documentation - or is there a 'wiki' that can be a repository for information to get folded into official CiviCRM documentation?