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Overwriting Core Classes


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inkubux

Community Member, 11 Posts

29 October 2010 at 8:58am

I want to know if there is a way to ovewrite silverstripe Core classes, od tell the cms to use my classes.

example.

if i put a core template in mysite/templates/TableListField.ss the cms will use my template

I want to achieve the same with the class it self eg : "MyTableListField extends TableListField" and tell the cms to use this class MyTableListField instead. or use the same technique as the DataObjectDecorator but I can't seem to find a way.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you very much

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Martijn

Community Member, 271 Posts

29 October 2010 at 10:19am

I really +1 this request, but its not possible. Tried this several times with Object::use_custom_class(); but this won't override code FormFields.

So if someones knows a solution :)

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Hamish

Community Member, 712 Posts

29 October 2010 at 12:27pm

Yeah, Object::use_custom_class only replaces objects created with Object::create. So, I guess we should be writing SS code using Object::create all the time, but no one does :/ so it is of limited use.

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inkubux

Community Member, 11 Posts

29 October 2010 at 1:46pm

This would make a lot of sense. I really hope for this feature to be implemented :). It would really make the cms and the framework totally customizable whitout touching the core.

Just for the record it's possible to Subclass the ModelAdmin and Set a TableListClass with the resultsTableClassName proprety.

But it was tedious to find where to hook to change it.

By having the core written with Object::create it would actually be a charm.