Author Topic: Customizing and Upgrade of civicrm (Read 535 times)

sriraman.v · March 09, 2012, 03:54:16 am

Hi ,

For Customizing the class in the Civicrm,normally we will be overridding the class in a Custom folder .For eg) i want to customize the CRM_Utils_Rule class,we have created the custom folder for civicrm called civicrm_custom\CRM\Utils and in the same folder we will be placing the Rule.php and we will overridding.

i have following questions.
a) Is this is the correct procedure for overridding the Core(existing) civicrm classes.
b) if so,while upgrading the civicrm from 3.x to 4.x we are facing the Backward compatability issue?

Can you help on this please ?

xavier · March 09, 2012, 05:05:11 am

It is correct and you might have problems in the upgrade. A better approach is to discuss the changes and see if you can contribute them to the core (you might have to write something a bit more generic, but will save you time in the long run, and good for the karma).

One more future proof approach if really custom needs is to write a module using hooks to modify what you need (but you can't change as much as overriding the class).

Otherwise, I use git and check in first an unmodified file, makes it easier if you have to patch a new version again
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